SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab
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I'm toying with the idea of setting up an Asterisks deployment (likely FreePBX) in my home lab. I'd like to be able to make/receive external calls. Any recommendations on a SIP trunk provider for such use? voip.ms seems pretty cheap. Just curious what you guys would recommend.
Thanks!
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Yup, voip.ms is the top choice.
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@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
Yup, voip.ms is the top choice.
I was looking at their pricing and for ~$5/month you can get unlimited calling. Is that both inbound and outbound, or just outbound?
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@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
Yup, voip.ms is the top choice.
I was looking at their pricing and for ~$5/month you can get unlimited calling. Is that both inbound and outbound, or just outbound?
See this:
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@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
Yup, voip.ms is the top choice.
I was looking at their pricing and for ~$5/month you can get unlimited calling. Is that both inbound and outbound, or just outbound?
Just inbound, and only for home use.
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@dbeato said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
Yup, voip.ms is the top choice.
I was looking at their pricing and for ~$5/month you can get unlimited calling. Is that both inbound and outbound, or just outbound?
See this:
That's toll free numbers, not normal phone numbers.
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I'm talking about this:
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In addition to voip.ms look at Twilio.
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@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
I'm talking about this:
Incoming only is unlimited (says so right there on the screen.) Outgoing is the same price as normal. It's consumer only, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
I'm talking about this:
Incoming only is unlimited (says so right there on the screen.) Outgoing is the same price as normal. It's consumer only, though.
And two channels.
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THink about how many minutes that is of incoming calls for home use. A DID with pay per minute is $.85. Incoming calls are $.009 per minute. So ...
$4.25 - $.85 = $3.40
$3.40 / .009 = 377 minutes included.Unless you are regularly getting a lot of incoming calls a month, you are losing money on that. For a home, that's really rare. That's many hours of sitting on the phone every month on incoming calls alone.
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@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
THink about how many minutes that is of incoming calls for home use. A DID with pay per minute is $.85. Incoming calls are $.009 per minute. So ...
$4.25 - $.85 = $3.40
$3.40 / .009 = 377 minutes included.Unless you are regularly getting a lot of incoming calls a month, you are losing money on that. For a home, that's really rare. That's many hours of sitting on the phone every month on incoming calls alone.
OH!!! I was reading it as 9 cents. Not 0.9 cents!!! Makes total sense now!
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And if you are doing this for home like I do, I get my family members onto PBX extensions. So the people I talk to most are internal to my PBX. So something like 95% of my calls from my home phone to the outside world, never hit the PSTN. So don't get counted in those minutes. For me, my total minutes that would count against this average something like 5-10 minutes a month.
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@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
And if you are doing this for home like I do, I get my family members onto PBX extensions. So the people I talk to most are internal to my PBX. So something like 95% of my calls from my home phone to the outside world, never hit the PSTN. So don't get counted in those minutes. For me, my total minutes that would count against this average something like 5-10 minutes a month.
Do most of your family members use a softphone app on a mobile phone / computer or do they have physical IP phones?
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@scottalanmiller I need a vendor to send me a Yealink W52P for testing and review.
Would be a good 'home" phone. Then I can convince the rest of the family a step at a time. -
@eddiejennings said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
And if you are doing this for home like I do, I get my family members onto PBX extensions. So the people I talk to most are internal to my PBX. So something like 95% of my calls from my home phone to the outside world, never hit the PSTN. So don't get counted in those minutes. For me, my total minutes that would count against this average something like 5-10 minutes a month.
Do most of your family members use a softphone app on a mobile phone / computer or do they have physical IP phones?
Most use physical desk phones, so that they can hear them ring when the computers are off and easily use speakphones.
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@jaredbusch said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller I need a vendor to send me a Yealink W52P for testing and review.
Would be a good 'home" phone. Then I can convince the rest of the family a step at a time.Yeah, me too. Still have a really old entry level T3xG on my desk right now.
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@scottalanmiller said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@jaredbusch said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
@scottalanmiller I need a vendor to send me a Yealink W52P for testing and review.
Would be a good 'home" phone. Then I can convince the rest of the family a step at a time.Yeah, me too. Still have a really old entry level T3xG on my desk right now.
I would not want a W52P for a desk phone. But for a home cordless phone, it is perfect. I know that @Minion-Queen has one at their house.
For your desk get the T41S since you do not care about gigabit.
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Is it still possible to interface with Google Voice these days with Asterisk/FreePBX? I know a while back Google changed something on their end which made it much more difficult (if not impossible at the time) to do.
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@anthonyh said in SIP Trunk Provider For Home Lab:
Is it still possible to interface with Google Voice these days with Asterisk/FreePBX? I know a while back Google changed something on their end which made it much more difficult (if not impossible at the time) to do.
Yes. I never do it, but the information is out there.
