Andy Hall wrote:

The ATA. A box with an Ethernet interface and a couple of phone sockets.
Not as cheap as the cards, but reckined to work a lot better.

Ah, OK. Do you have an example of one you've tried?

I had a very brief play with the older versions of these. They may do
what you want. Whether there is much cost advantage over a VoIP phone
these days is debatable:

http://www.solwise.co.uk/voip-4-port-gateways.htm

Not sure how well they will play with Asterisk, but there is no obvious
reason why they should not.

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Cheers,

John.

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