On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100
Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line
then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this
is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have
written drivers for.
They have unequivocally dropped support for these cheap cards. They
suck anyway, but this isn't to say you can't play with one.... I
still do, after all.
...
This may be true, but I believe it's more because the cards, as
every one will tell you straight up (unless they are selling you the
card, of course) are of poor quality and design.
Yep. There are driver issues, voltage/signalling problems... and in
the end, even if working, they won't sound good. There's a reason
they are, like, $10 on Ebay.
Basically, they are decent winmodems (if such a thing is
possible)... that they can be used for telephony is a fluke.
...
My time figuring out the first glitch between my card and the (sort
of) supporting driver would have been saved/paid for by buying a
real FXO/FXS card initially.
Hi Michael,
Many thanks for your comments. How much is one looking at for a "real"
FXO/FXS card?
I'm not sure the difference between FXO & FXS - just want something to
"convert" my home phone line for use with Asterisk or similar. Don't
bother giving me model numbers or anything like that - I can do my own
research & I'm sure the situation will have changed by the time I get
around to deploying. Just interested in a labb-park figure, as the
little Irish girl said.
Stroller.
