PhoneNode Project will no longer support OpenWGT port. We are porting PhoneNode on OpenWRT's kamikaze. Netgear WGT634U is the only hardware supported for now. Several additional hardware would be supported in the near future. Please stay tuned.

Phonenode Project - DIY Telco - Has a homepage http://phonenode.org
We are not yet set up for code distribution but you can get all the code you need at the home page.

Asterisk + WiFi + Linux= Phonode DIY Telco - Cheapest Internet Phone and First Mile Solution

At the VON Conference Spring 2006 Brian Capouch presented quiet possibly the world’s cheapest Internet phone and last mile solution.

Prof. Brian Capouch is an assistant professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.

Thanks to the work by the people at OpenWRT Prof. Capouch hacked a Netgear WGT634U WiFi system and installed Asterisk on a Flash card. This system can be used in variety of applications:

Router / Firewall

Access Point

Wireless Client Mode

Point to Point Backhaul Link (Cheap Last mile solution)

Another interesting application was remote video surveillance with a cheap web cam and Linux motion detection capability. The asterisk system would call once an intruder was detected and can feed both steaming video and audio.

Netgear WGT634U system details:

Atheros miniPC

Serail Port header

CPU: 200 mHz

32 MB RAM

8 MB Flash

1 Port 2.0 USB port

12VDC

For additional specs:

Netgear WGT534U