it does not have the required bandwidth, you can barely browse the internet on that thing. It’s unstable and goes through the analog phone system. Nobody really seeks to know why it is so since its not a sufficient form of internet connectivity.
As far as dial up goes - I don’t know much about Asterisk related devices.
But as far as Skype goes, I have setup 2 other remote locations with this dialup modem:
Actiontec Dual PC Modem - GS002AN2-01
This unit is an analog Dial-up modem and a router/firewall. See the Description. buy.com/retail/product.asp?s … c=101&sp=1
It has a RJ-11 port to connect to the phone line. It is used to dialup the local ISP.
It has 2 RJ-45 ports. One is connected to a PC which dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu.
Skype works just fine - from Ubuntu and XP. No problems at all.
The dial up connection drops maybe once a week. It is not really a problem.
We have used it where we have only dialup access.
But we cannot make a Skype client an extension on our system.
So I thought I could connect an ATA device to the RJ-45 port on the
Actiontec and avoid using the PC completely. (Besides the PC does
not belong to us, we borrow it and it will be removed anyway.)