I had a recent bad experience with Compaq with asterisk. For some reason it
could not be forced to put my PCI cards on anything other than IRQ 11. This
is a major problem because when all the cards (2 xnetwork,2x FXS) are active
and generate interrupts it chops up the sound quality.
I was trying to convince the bios to split it up for 2 days but then I gave
up. Mind you, this is not a very powerful system at all so on a faster
machine it might not be a problem (it could just handle the interrupts fast
enough without making the sound choppy). But I would think that no matter
how fast the machine is it's always better to have the IRQs split up and not
shared. I never tried on dell yet ..
Tomas
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dovid B.
Asterisk Users
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:33 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Kind of Computer to use
Hi,
I am building PBX's for clients. I was thinking of using Dell computers. I
was told that they do not work well with asterisk. Any one have any
suggestions ? Any other brands that work well with asterisk ? Also any
specific hardware to or not to use ? Finally does that Mac Mini work well
with asterisk ? Thanks a lot.
Dovid
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