Getting started

I decided to go down the path of VoIP when I stumbled across trixbox. I had heard a little about Asterisk, in particular Asterisk@Home while setting up my Linksys WRT54GL router. The DD-WRT firmware that I was investigating, due to its support for Quality of Service (QoS), had a version that supported VoIP. I can't say I ever really tried that distribution as the reports were that if you had to transcode a call because of different codecs being required for a single call, that the WRT54GL was too slow to perform that. In any case, this blog will be about my experiences and what I can share to pass along to others as the hunt was time consuming to say the least.