Newbie question

Folks,
I came across Asterisk about a week ago. I don’t seem to understand exactly what it does. My questions are:

  1. How will it benefit me as a home user?
  2. Does it mean Asterisk will replace my regular phone service and I can make all kinds of calls?

Please forgive me if these sound like dumb questions but I want to know more.

Thanks

Salaga2007

  1. You can have your own personal pbx !
  2. Yes.

Regards.

Marco Bruni.

It can help a lot. You can have the system pretty much do anything. For instance if your mother in law calls it can just hang up on her. You can pretty much do anything with it. You can also take advantage of low rates by using lots of different ITSP’s out there. VOIP tends to be cheaper than “regular” telco providers.

[quote]For instance if your mother in law calls it can just hang up on her[/quote] Love it :smiley: