Hi All, I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had nothing but problems with them. I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now. I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course, mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product. So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here have good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc. With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some collective experience with each one. Thanks, Michael Michael Graves Sr Product Specialist Pixel Power Inc mgraves@pixelpower.com o(713)861-4005 o(800)905-6412 f(713)864-8668 c(713)201-1262
Hi, I have only done some basic testing with the sipaura 3000 that I bought 2 weeks ago - it appears to work very well. I have made quite a number of calls - although they have only been short ones and not had a single echo yet. No experience yet with any other devices but would like to hear about peoples experiences with ISDN BRI adapters Cheers, Sam mgraves@mstvp.com wrote on 27/08/2004 16:41:12:> Hi All, > > I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's > experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had > nothing but problems with them. > > I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it > can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems > that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at > least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to > new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now. > > I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course, > mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having > problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product. > > So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here have > good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the > TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about > devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc. > With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some > collective experience with each one. > > Thanks, > Michael > > Michael Graves > Sr Product Specialist > Pixel Power Inc > mgraves@pixelpower.com > o(713)861-4005 > o(800)905-6412 > f(713)864-8668 > c(713)201-1262 > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 -Confidentiality- This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be subject to legal professional privilege and are intended for the named recipient only. If you are not the named recipient, please return the message and enclosures immediately and delete them from your system. -Caution- Before advice received only by email (whether by attachment or otherwise) may be relied on, the authenticity of the communication must be verified by means independent of email. -Regulation- The firm is regulated by the Law Society. -Partners- A list of partners is available for inspection at each office of the firm and on the firm's website at http://www.winckworths.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040827/fa7f4a78/attachment.htm
I personally am running a couple of X100p cards, a couple of SPA-3000s and a T100P. The X100p cards seem mostly flawless, I do have issues if I am trying to use both at the same time. I suspect it's due to interrupt sharing, it just hasn't bothered me enough to go fix it. The other issue with the X100p (which isn't a big deal eaither..) is an echo when I start the call. I can hear my own echo for 5-10 seconds then it goes away and I don't hear it any more. (This is SIP->*->X100p->PSTN.) I suspect it's the echo training learning?? The SPA-3000 seems to work well also with little or no echo. I put it "in-line" with my phone at work. So, all my work phone calls go in/out on this with no real problems. The only issue that I have (and again, it hasn't bothered me enough to go fix it yet..) is two stage dialing. When I place an outbound call, * gives me dial tone. I dial and the line starts ringing. The SPA-3000 picks up, I hear dial tone, it dials the number and rings. Although, I guess it is nice to know what's going on with the call. I'm also using another SPA-3000 at my parents house. (They run a bed and breakfast - so 911 is an issue there.) I route all outbound calls to 911 through the FXO port. Other than that, the FXO port isn't really used. (I'm trying to talk them into letting it take their voicemail.. but they're not quite ready for that.) Then I route the "bat phone" to my *. The T100P is mostly in a "testing" phase right now. We have a test PRI at the office (used for testing dial up internet equipment and our Interactive Intelligence phone system at the office.) I have that run into a T100P in a * box. (400Mhz Celeron right now.. ) I route all my outbound local calls through that box. I would like to use VOIP for outbound long distance at the office. However, due to "internal management issues" we can't directly connect the Interactive Intelligence box directly to VOIP. So, I was going to use pri_net signaling with the T100P and feed an ISDN PRI into the II box. All of these are connected to one of 4 different * boxes through IAX2. ie.. I dial out from the house, it goes down to a * box at the office then over to the "dev" box with the T100P. (Office drops out through then IAX2 transfer.) All that seems to work very well.. with little or now problems. (* has a very high "backgroundability" factor.. ie, put it in place, forget it, and just use it.) Tom On Aug 27, 2004, at 10:41 AM, mgraves@mstvp.com wrote:> Hi All, > > I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's > experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had > nothing but problems with them. > > I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it > can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems > that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at > least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to > new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now. > > I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course, > mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having > problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product. > > So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here > have > good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the > TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about > devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc. > With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some > collective experience with each one. > > Thanks, > Michael > > > > Michael Graves > Sr Product Specialist > Pixel Power Inc > mgraves@pixelpower.com > o(713)861-4005 > o(800)905-6412 > f(713)864-8668 > c(713)201-1262 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's > experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had > nothing but problems with them. > > I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it > can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems > that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at > least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to > new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now. > > I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course, > mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having > problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product. > > So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here have > good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the > TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about > devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc. > With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some > collective experience with each one.Have ran both the x100p's and tdm04b (4-port fxo) for several months. In the US, both are usable however the software drivers still are in need of some serious help. Most of the issues revolve around: - interrupts, pci bus or something like that resulting in echo (which appears to be system/motherboard dependent), and echo cancellation functions that have only a limited range, - transmission levels (rxgain/txgain) are not anywhere near useful outside a rather limited range (without causing other problems) - less then stable causing failures that result in having to reboot the entire system (stopping and restarting * and the drivers do not always work). - callerid reliability runs about 80% of what a cheap analog phone bridged onto the pstn line displays. I don't know of anyone that is actually working on correcting the issues, and part of that is likely the result of most users inability to document the problems (since its oftentimes necessary to get the interfaces back up as soon as possible). I've tried the Mediatrix 1204 gateway, and although it works, support is less then acceptable for any serious production use. Echo was non- existant, but lots of other issues when attempting to use it with anything other then four exactly-equal pots lines. The company appeared to be near bankrupcy, therefore any/all software upgrades are chargable. Support is limited to their resellers only and a large percentage of those are not familiar with any voip systems other then whatever commercial products they happen to sell. The company's focus is still in the toll bypass arena using the 1104 and 1204 together. I've not tried most of the other 4-port (or so) boxes as they seem to be very over-priced. I've got a spa3000, but have not had enough time to mess with it in any serious manner. The small amount of testing that I've done make it appear to be a nice box. Hope to learn more about it in the next few weeks. The market seems to be lacking a reasonable/reliable product in the two-to-six fxo port range. Above six ports, seems the channel bank approach becomes more economical, reliable, and easier to support. Rich
Hello,
I?ve been doing tests with a Softphone and a TDM400 with two FXO
modules. At first, I had echo and specially gain problems with it, but after
enabling Mark2/Aggressive echo cancelation, the echo problem vanished. The
gain problem seems to be due to (I suppose) some noise induced by my sound
card. I?ve monitored it using ztmonitor, and the TX gain was fixed on the
top. On the PSTN side, this resulted in "periods of silence" from time
to
time. When I changed my soundcard, the problem vanished.
Marcelo
----- Original Message -----
From: <mgraves@mstvp.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:41 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] FXOs
> Hi All,
>
> I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's
> experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had
> nothing but problems with them.
>
> I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it
> can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems
> that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at
> least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to
> new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now.
>
> I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course,
> mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having
> problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product.
>
> So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here have
> good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the
> TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about
> devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc.
> With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some
> collective experience with each one.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
> Michael Graves
> Sr Product Specialist
> Pixel Power Inc
> mgraves@pixelpower.com
> o(713)861-4005
> o(800)905-6412
> f(713)864-8668
> c(713)201-1262
>
>
>
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The only FXO interface that I have at the moment is an X101p. It was working great up until about a year ago and then something weird happened and I haven't used it since (until recently). Now it would seem it just doesn't like my PSTN line however it works fine running back-to-back on another non-PSTN FXS interface. Still working on it tho so I may get it working again soon. Regards, Jamie Carl Chief 'Stuff' Officer J-Code Web: http://www.j-code.net Email: geek@j-code.net -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of mgraves@mstvp.com Sent: Saturday, 28 August 2004 1:41 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] FXOs Hi All, I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards and have had nothing but problems with them. I also took part in Sipura's beta program, for the SPA-3000. While it can be an improvement over the X100p, it presently has echo problems that make it unusable. Sipura has not acknowledged the problem ( at least to me) although several in the user community make refernce to new firmware that might address the issue, real soon now. I see a lot of activity recently on-list about the TDM-400. Of course, mentions on-list are more than likely the result of people having problems. We don't hear about people who have no issues with a product. So, the nature of my inquiry is to explore how many people out here have good/great experiences with the various small FXO adapters? While the TDM-400 is my next possible purchase I'd also like to hear about devices from Welltech, Clipcomm, Micronet, Multitech, Immixtel, etc. With so many products being offered I would hope that we have some collective experience with each one. Thanks, Michael Michael Graves Sr Product Specialist Pixel Power Inc mgraves@pixelpower.com o(713)861-4005 o(800)905-6412 f(713)864-8668 c(713)201-1262 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
I have an FXO card in a channel bank, which is run into a Digium TE405P. Works great.> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of > Wilson Pickett > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:37 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXOs > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:15:42 -0400, Michael Graves > <mgraves@mstvp.com> wrote: > > > > >I'd really like to see a show of hands with regard to people's > > >experience with FXO interfaces. I own a few X100p cards > and have had > > >nothing but problems with them. > > 2 X100 FXO here and no problems with them here in France. > Caller ID, works and both are on lines that have DSL > connections as well. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >