VoIP update
So I have had my Broadvoice account up and running for a couple of weeks now. It is pretty nice, I can make unlimited calls on that line for 19.95 per month.
Julia seems to like it, but I think some of her relatives are getting a little tired of hearing her jabber.. She can really go.. It is amazing to see Julia ask relevant questions of each of her relatives.
The sound quality on Broadvoice has been fair. It sounds a tad bit more staticy than would be nessesary for comfort noise. I have noticed that when I call some PBX based systems either myself or the recipient will hear ocasionally hear a pretty load echo about 1 or 2 seconds behind their own voice. When I dial POTS lines I have never noticed this, and I don't think it happens all of the time. There may be an easy way to fix it. I have not investigated much.
My caller ID did not work for the first week or so. I emailed Broadvoice and got back a letter that gave some suggestions, but also said "our engineers are working on the problem" A few days later it started working okay.
I have not configured the Sipura 3000 to use my POTS line yet. Don't know if I will or not. I could set it up so If I dailed 911 from one of my VoIP phones it would route out my normal phone line. Right now I am keeping my old fashoined number, so there shouldn't be much issue.
One of the features I love about the Broadvoice plan is that you can configure it to simultaniously ring other phone numbers. I have it ring my old land line at the same time as it rings my VoIP phones. You could also configure this so it would ring a cell phone or any other phone.. All of this can be turned on or off from the Broadvoice website, and seems to take effect immediately..
Now I am getting ready to gear up and start working on the Asterisk PBX system. Basically i am initally building it to be and IVR/Voicemail system.
