I dont think I mentioned this last night, but I put the Asterisk@Home CD in my old Laptop and rebooted the machine, thinking that this was a ‘Live’ CD with no install needed. Yeah, sure. After asking if you wanted the GUI or the text interface it went to wipe the HDD and load itself onto the PC before I could say or do anything. Great. Good for turn-key operations, but not what I was hoping for. I was hoping for at least a question asking like ‘Do you wish to format the HDD?’. Windows asks this. Asterisk@Home does not…

The whole Asterisk@Home thing does not look all that professional with the Web Interface. It looks quite disjointed really. I am sure that it is all there, but it is disjointed. Different styles of Web GUI for different packages. Different logins and passwords. All in all not really for production use I dont think. I might just pay $20 for a Live CD… Well, if I can get any decent details on what they offer…

The other thing I found, to my disgust, was that the ZyXEL P2002 does not seem to be able to have different login information for each port of the device. This is plain dumb. I wanted one line to connect to the Asterisk@Home and the other to connect to FaktorTel… I will probably get a 2nd box at some stage – VoIP box I mean, in order to do some more work on this…. SHould be a fun experiment…