TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question

Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question

Robert Bonomi (bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com)
Thu, 31 May 2007 17:21:46 -0000

In article <telecom26.152.3@telecom-digest.org>,
John Mayson <john@mayson.us> wrote:

> I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest.

> I finally fired Ma Bell. I had once-upon-a-time worked for AT&T and
> remainded a loyal telephone customer. However I just got tired of
> waiting for DSL on my street so I could take advantage of their
> phone/DSL/satellite package deal. I already had Road Runner
> high-speed Internet from Time Warner so I signed up for digital cable
> and phone.

> The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble
> finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can
> continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone.
> But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone
> number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal.
> Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to
> place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless
> of where my computer may be. Is this possible?

Possible? yes.

Trivial effort? no.

Probably requires some extra hardware.

Definitely requires some _significant_ extra software.

On a Unix-esque platform, I'd be looking at Asterix as a starting point.
On Windows, 'yate' maybe?? (dunno much about it).

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