HOW TO SETUP ASTERISK@HOME

  1. Introduction
  2. Installing the Operating System with Asterisk
  3. Configuring the Operating System
  4. Configuring Asterisk
  5. Getting a Softphone Working - X-Lite
  6. Setting up External Calling using VoIP
  7. Setting up External Calling using VoIP (cont'd)
  8. Advanced Settings and Configuration (via SSH)
  9. Conclusion

Part 7: Setting up External Calling using VoIP (cont'd)

Once again, on the left, click Outbound Routing. That should bring you back to this page. If not, click the route that you added previously (just before creating the trunk) at the top right, just under the text Add Route.


Fill in the information as shown in the screenshot, replacing 514 with your local area code. The 011 allows you to call internationally, the 1514 allows you to call within the 514 area code, the NXXNXXXXXX lets you dial any other area code, then NXXXXXX lets you dial a local number without having to input a local area code.


Click Submit Changes. As usual, click the red bar at the top to apply the changes.

This was the last time we will use the web based control panel, as it is not powerful enough to access certain options and has problems modifying select configuration files. At this point, we again strongly urge you to add any extensions that you anticipate using, because it will be much more complicated to do without the web-based control panel. Unfortunately, any changes made without the web-based control panel will be overwritten and lost retroactively if, subsequently, you use the web-based control panel to modify any settings.

In short, if you have to, use the web-based control panel now (for the last time), or risk losing any settings you make manually hereafter.

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