Hi. I'm setting up an Asterisk hobby box for me to play around with. Is it possible to use a regular 56k modem and a regular home phone for it? Thanks. Logan.
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 06:26, loganb@solitarygeek.com wrote:> Hi. I'm setting up an Asterisk hobby box for me to play around with. > Is it possible to use a regular 56k modem and a regular home phone > for it?Yes, but forget G.711. BTW, some SIP-phones have built-in modem :)
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:21PM -0800, loganb@solitarygeek.com wrote:> Hi. I'm setting up an Asterisk hobby box for me to play around with. Is it > possible to use a regular 56k modem and a regular home phone for it?Most of them won't be supported by Asterisk directly. What modem is it exactly? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jbr.cohens.org.il | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend
Hi... I was going to clear a couple of things up because it seems that my message wasn't very clear--it teaches me not to post to a mailing list sick and half-sleep. Here we go... I am trying to set up a small hobby box on Debian Linux to play around with. This will in no way be in a production evironment or even a semi-production environment. Asterisk will be installed on my personal Linux box. I have a generic Soft56k modem (which I hope to soon replace) in there now. It doesn't work for PPP in Debian because it's a Winmodem. <- That's irrelavent. I was wondering if it was feasable to istall Asterisk on this box and have that modem (or whatever modem) with a regular telephone wired to the "Phone" port. I'm hoping to spend very little (under $50) or none, if possible. Thanks for the other helpful input, though. Logan.
Logan wrote:> I was wondering if it was feasable to istall > Asterisk on this box and have that modem (or whatever modem) with a > regular telephone wired to the "Phone" port.I'm a bit of a noob, also, but I don't think the Phone port on those cards are real FXS ports. I.e., I think they just connect through to the PXO jack while the modem is not in an off-hook state. Can someone verify this? A test might be to see if you get 'battery' (voltage) on the phone port when nothing is connected to the line/fxo port? Phil
Philip Edelbrock wrote:> > On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Logan wrote: > >>> >> As stupid as this may seem ::cough::, how do you test to see if >> there is voltage on the phone port? Would you plug in a phone that >> doesn't require a AC power and runs off the voltage from the phone >> line? >> >> Thanks though... ^_^ >> Logan. > > > > I was thinking volt meter, but actually I like your idea of just > jacking in a phone and seeing if push-button tones and stuff work, > with and without the line-side being plugged in. > > > Phil >It worked, thank goodness. But does that mean it'll work... I just looked on the Asterisk-Users message list and for some reason Tom Rymes messages. In response to Tom: I'm sure it's not an Digium-anything. It's a cheapo Office Depot replacement for when my original was struck by lightning. As I had said, I'm really not wanting to spend any money. It's not important that I get Asterisk up and running. Allow me to repeat, it's only a hobby box. But you're welcome to give me one... ;) Thanks. Logan.
Hi everyone! Okay. I was reading on the voip-info.org about FXO and FXS. Is it possible just to get a card with FXO and FXS together? I know Digium sells them, but as I've said, I'm looking to spend too much. Thanks for everyone's input! Logan.