{"id":410,"date":"2009-10-09T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=410"},"modified":"2009-10-10T04:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:43:15","slug":"switched-to-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Switched to VOIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of the silly $40\/month phone bills.  We stitched to a real SIP VOIP telephone service.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be paying about $10\/month.  I got an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linksys_PAP2\">analog telephony adapter<\/a> (ATA), which connects to our VOIP provider (no need for anything complicated like Asterisk for now.) \u00c2\u00a0The ATA is the only new piece of equipment we needed (we already had a router &#8211; any router will do fine.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still too early to say whether or not this was a good idea. \u00c2\u00a0The sound quality seems to be the same as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of the silly $40\/month phone bills. We stitched to a real SIP VOIP telephone service. We&#8217;ll be paying about $10\/month. I got an analog telephony adapter (ATA), which connects to our VOIP provider (no need for anything complicated like Asterisk for now.) \u00c2\u00a0The ATA is the only new piece of equipment we needed (we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}