Take a look at sip station as a provider and AsteriskNOW or FreePBX. I know said you want to stay away from asterisk but these both give you a nice easy to use web gui. Which ever provider you pick for you sip service, before you buy, ping their sip gateway at random times throughout the day. You want to make sure your jitter (round trip time in ms) stays below 100ms. Any thing higher and your calls can sound like a bad cellphone call. I use FreePBX in a small (5 person) office and it has been rock solid.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:22 PM, philburt stortsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ppld.phil.stortz@hotmail.com">ppld.phil.stortz@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Can any one recomend a relatively inexpensive Voip provider? I'm only looking for 1 or 2 lines and would like to pay $5-10/mo for each line. This is primarily for personal use and possibly a second line for my business attempts (i'm disabled but would like to set up a small business, probably selling electronics kits) so i don't need a premium supplier like 8X8 (though they look excellent I really don't need "business class" service.<br>
<br>Any recomendations for software that's simpler than asterisk? I'll probably be using a dedicated machine for this and a local caching dns server so a specific distro of linux would likely work fine for me. I'll be using a headset connected directly to the computer most likely unless i find a cheap card to use a "standard" phone with it and would therefore like to use the computers internal speaker for "ringing". I'll likely use an older, lower power machine possibly a P3 or P4 processor (to minize my power usage).<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br>"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" Albert Einstein
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