# Complete noob searching answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [September 18, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260 "2006-09-18T07:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TommyE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TommyE](https://community.asterisk.org/u/TommyE)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260/1 "2006-09-18T07:24:44Z")
Hello all. From time to time I like to read up on new things, and now I’ve come across Asterisk. As VOIP subscriptions are becoming cheaper here in Norway I would like to setup a Asteriks server at home. I would love to use a couple of my old analouge phones, and maybe a faxmachine later on, if I can get it going. I do not have any old analouge or ISDN phonelines in my home, just a couple of SIP accounts with my VOIP provider, that I use with a FritzBOX combined router,modem, wireless and two analouge phone adapters today. (Works great) I have been looking at Trixbox as it seems easy to setup, everything beeing on an ISO file to download. What I can’t grasp is this: 1. Where do I connect my analouge phones?? To a SIP adapter like the Sipura adapters, or maybe the FritzBOX I already have. 2. Are there any PCI adapters I could plug into my server that will just give me possibility of plugging a couple of analouge phones to it? 3. Where do I put my VOIP providers SIP login information?? In the Asteriks server? 4. What login info do I put in the Sipura adapter?? The info I create for my Asteriks server?? Best regards TommyE ---
**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260/2 "2006-09-18T07:33:52Z")
1. your analogue phones can be connected to FXS ports in your server, via e.g. Digium TDM400 (with FXS modules), or a Sangoma A200 (again, with FXS module(s)), or via an ATA like the Sipura/Linksys. i prefer the Linksys-style option, as it gives you more flexibility with physical location if you already have network cables around, and it cheaper per-port to provision. you might be able to use your Fritzbox if it can register with the Asterisk server as a user/peer. 1. see 1 2. if you’re using a FreePBX-based setup (like TrixBox) then there is a “Trunk” module that lets you create a SIP trunk to your provider, complete with dialling rules etc. 3. if using a Sipura/Linksys adapter (or anything that needs to connect to Asterisk), the info you set it up with will have to be the same as Asterisk is expecting. most devices have a web front-end, some are provisioned with TFTP config files. if using something like a PAP2 you enter login credentials that you created in FreePBX for the “extensions”. ---
**Author:** ![TommyE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TommyE](https://community.asterisk.org/u/TommyE)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260/3 "2006-09-18T07:43:41Z")
Great thanks for your fast reply. Now I can rip out for sure those old analouge modems 😊 Thought I could use them as an analouge interface. 😊 Googling around I found this [asteriskguru.com/tutorials/fritz\_box.html](http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/fritz_box.html) seems like I can use my FritzBox. Cool. This will give me a cheap start. Best regards TommyE ---
**Author:** ![TommyE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TommyE](https://community.asterisk.org/u/TommyE)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260/4 "2006-09-18T11:56:56Z")
Is there any possibility to use one of those cheap Skype phones as a phone for Asteriks? Regards TommyE ---
**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/complete-noob-searching-answers/9260/5 "2006-09-18T12:01:40Z")
those “cheap Skype phones” are usually just USB sound devices, and know nothing of any VoIP protocol … it’s all in the software. you can use one with something like IDEFisk or X-Lite though … but it’s (imo) a nasty, cheap alternative to a “real” device.