I anyone has any hesitations in upgrading their 405P (or 410P) to V2 of the firmware, read below; I installed one today (turnaround time around 2 weeks to Australia, inc. economy freight in both directions... impressive!) and have noticed immediate, significant improvements. Audio levels are better (have set tx and rx gains back to 0.0) and missed frames have gone (popping, clicking, etc.). Echo on bridged calls has also gone (I have now been able to disable echo cancellation on bridged calls, too!). I'm now rushing to get my other 2 upgraded. BTW: Make sure you have 1.0.9.2 zaptel drivers. The card didn't work with 1.0.9.1 drivers! I do NOT have the echo canceller module installed, as 90% of my calls are zaptel bridged calls. -- =========================================Rod Bacon Empowered Communications Ground Floor, 102 York St. South Melbourne Victoria, Australia. 3205 Phone: +613 99401600 Fax: +613 99401650 FWD: 512237 ICQ: 5662270 ==========================================
Rod Bacon wrote:> Audio levels are better (have set tx and rx gains back to 0.0) and > missed frames have gone (popping, clicking, etc.). Echo on bridged calls > has also gone (I have now been able to disable echo cancellation on > bridged calls, too!).Bridged calls with 2nd gen firmware result in the audio never leaving the card; that's why you are seeing such an improvement. Essentially, the Zaptel 'native bridge' is pushed all the way down into the card, so the audio stream is never passed across the PCI bus (it's not even packetized, just directly connected between the two channels). Glad to hear it was worth the time it took to get to you!
On 9/26/05, Steve Totaro <asterisk@totarotechnologies.com> wrote:> > > > How can I check to see if I have the new firmware or not? I bought a card > used the other day.Type dmesg | grep "TE410P version" and look for the TE410P version line. If it ends with 164 you got the new firmware. [root@sipsrv1 ~]# dmesg | grep "TE410P version" TE410P version c01a010b, burst ON -- Morten Isaksen http://www.misak.dk/blog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050926/4ee3da5c/attachment.htm
> On Monday 26 September 2005 00:43, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > > This new firmware only works on new hardware I guess.. > > The firmware is *on* the card itself. > > -A.How can I check to see if I have the new firmware or not? I bought a card used the other day. Thanks, Steve