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how do I build a gateway cell phone to packet8

Use Asterisk running on a Linux based PC with two Digium PCI FXO cards (assuming they are compatibel with your local PSTN), one plugs into the Packet8 box, the other into the phone line. You'll need a bit of help setting up the programming and it's wise to put a password on it (you'll be using a feature of asterisk called DISA which has provisions for a PIN or password to protect unauthorized use).

One thing to consider is that depending on plans available to you it is sometimes cheap or free to call from cell-phone to cell-phone so in which case I wouldn't connect Asterisk to your landline but rather to a Cellsocket (check pulver innovations' website) so you can call the other cellphone which then asterisk answers and routes your call by Packet8.

Bell Mobility in Canada has a family plan where calling between member phones is free (assuming you are all within your home calling area of course), so I was considering setting up a speeddial on all our cell phones to dial the cellsocket connected asterisk gateway first then using it to route calls, thus not using any airtime. And giving friends not my cell phone number but my asterisk extension so it would call out frmo asterisk to my cell phone in reverse, again with no airtime charges. Not to mention unlimited long distance as well

-Mark

reply to genobkk36
Buy FXS to FXO converter from pcphoneline, not only you will be able to call your family using your cellphone but also your family will be able to call your cellphone by calling your Packet8 number, here is how to:

-------Internet---Packet8--FXS2FXO--phoneline in Asia

Set the FXS port to auto forward incoming Packet8 calls to your cellphone using the phoneline no password needed on this part of the setup.

Set the FXO port to ask for password for all incoming calls from the phoneline before giving the Packet8 dialtone.

Good point, much simpler solution if you don't need all the extras.

reply to markscs
you could also try to take advantage of the Cellsocket
»www.cellsocket.com if you have the same phone models as they support and provide some routing intelligence.

reply to genobkk36
Hi,
You could do all those things and get it to work. But, are you sure the quality will be acceptable?? You are going through two voice compression (one through VoIP and one through Cell phone)??

Dreamer

wow it does NOT sound that easey. My pc is windows XP home, prefer something to be more hardware based I think. cell phone to cell phone might work better, but seems so hard to set up, but it would be cool to be able to use my cell phone when I am out to make and receive calls, that would be very very cool. I use packet8 to call my mother in the US everyday, and she calls me since I got a rate center that is free for her. She thinks it is great, but when I travel I have to forward Packet8 to my mobile phone in asia so I pay for the long distance for packet8 wiich the call forwarding seems NOT to allways work. plus if I am a neighboring country the roooming. They are useing GSM phones. I think I reallly would need some hlep setting this up once I got the hardware and software. What is the best way to go and the best features, what are the good and bad things about doing that?

ok I just did some reading. It looks like that the FXS to FXO gateway would give the person the landline phone, then they would have to dial my mobile phone, is thier a way to hook it up so that it would dial one number allways? Could I use a cell phone instead of a landline? see the person calling has to pay the cell phone bill and it is cheaper cell phone to cell phone.
are thier other ways to do it?

said by genobkk36:

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It looks like that the FXS to FXO gateway would give the person the landline phone, then they would have to dial my mobile phone, is thier a way to hook it up so that it would dial one number allways?

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Pulverinnovations »www.pulverinnovations.com sells an internet phone patch, that you can use to connect a Packet8 phone line and a regular phone line.

They also sell the Cellsocket (requires a Nokia cellphone) that can be used with the Internet Phone Patch instead of a regular phone line.

I would use the Internet Phone Patch with a regular phone line, unless cellphone to cellphone calling is very cheap there.

Read the manuals before buying any of the device and make sure the device works with the type of "disconnect supervison" that your country uses.

reply to genobkk36
Does it have to be Packet8? Something like voicepulse connect would yield much better results.

Why would Voicepaulse work better over packet8? I was going to try them but wounder why? Packet8 has the local number for my mother to cal and they seem to work the best here, vonage was working, but stoped working compltetely, voange try to tell me my isp is blocking SIP ports, wich is BS since packet8 is useing the same SIP ports and it works fine. one day vonage just stoped working and never coudl get it workding agian,. Packet8 has allways worked 100 percnet, allthough I noticed thier call forwarding to internatinal numbers sometiems fails

reply to genobkk36

Re: how do I build a gateway cell phone to packet8

reply to genobkk36
Aside from the price, what are the differences between Pulver's device and pcphoneline's device?

Do they both do the same thing?

How does the pcphoneline product compare to the Artech FX-200?

said by macdemex:

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How does the pcphoneline product compare to the Artech FX-200?

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While a fan of Jeff Pulver, last I checked his device was 4x higher than others mentioned?