A fascinating collection of info & replies here, thanks for posting it:
Quote from: Ostracus on June 14, 2014, 09:18:09 AM
Pogoplug is a good choice as well.
Worthy of note as well is that the last reply to that thread was posted 2012-Dec-11 so whatever devices & sources it suggests are more than a little out of date.
Here's my 2 cents on this subject from my own experiences:Running a PBX on a Pogoplug (if one could get a unit new for under $20...) is still a very cool & attractive idea and one which I may wish to tinker with at home at some later date myself.
My biggest 'hangup' (LOL) with wired/home/small office VOIP has always been the interfacing & phone choices because there are a great many available - it is hard to know what is decent quality - and the interfacing can also be quite expensive.
My work place needed a phone system upgrade very badly as its ancient one had proprietary phones that were dying out - and I was going to do it with VOIP -until- I examined the interfacing & phone choices offered back then.
The adapters to bring in the POTS lines back then were a real problem - and the 1000 or so phone choices (with reviews & opinions suggesting & damning most of them at once) was enough to give a man a HUGE headache.
So instead of VOIP the office has been using a highly reliable pre-VOIP system that cost very little, has tons of features and for less than just a few phones would have cost new I was able to source the entire system + phones + an add-on VM system + a full set of spares.
Since that time many VOIP parts have come way down in price and the field itself has made significant leaps in maturity as well - so if I had to replace that now I'd likely really lean towards a small, low-cost thing with the needed external parts to interface it - as long as it was not hideously complicated to set up...
Best Wishes to All !!
