Folks, I'm looking at buying an FXO card for my home Asterisk setup. The question I have is, should I got for a the Digium Wildcard FXO or settle for the winmodem that Digium sell? I have spoken to the UK distributor and they only sell the Wildcard. They said that the quality of the modem was questionable. Does anyone have any experience of this? Is the modem noticeably different from the Wildcard in terms of quality? Does it do things the modem doesn't? Basically, it it worth putting out an extra ?90 for the Wildcard? Many thanks, Mike.
Having experienced nasty echo problems with the X100P, I would say stay clear of that one :) I think for home use, your best bet will be something like the spa3000. I think that's what I'll be saving up for next! The advantage of that is that it also will work (or so I'm lead to believe) if your asterisk server breaks, which is far more likely to keep spouses happy. If you wanted more than one FSO + one FXO port though, the TDM400 starts to look like a better option. James> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hemstock > Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 11:18 > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card > > Folks, > > I'm looking at buying an FXO card for my home Asterisk setup. The > question I > have is, should I got for a the Digium Wildcard FXO or settle for the > winmodem that Digium sell? I have spoken to the UK distributor and they > only > sell the Wildcard. They said that the quality of the modem was > questionable. > Does anyone have any experience of this? Is the modem noticeably > different > from the Wildcard in terms of quality? Does it do things the modem > doesn't? > Basically, it it worth putting out an extra ?90 for the Wildcard? > > Many thanks, > Mike. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card > From: Mike Hemstock <mike@csits.net> > Date: Sun, January 15, 2006 6:18 pm > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > > Folks, > > I'm looking at buying an FXO card for my home Asterisk setup. The question I > have is, should I got for a the Digium Wildcard FXO or settle for the > winmodem that Digium sell? I have spoken to the UK distributor and they only > sell the Wildcard. They said that the quality of the modem was questionable. > Does anyone have any experience of this? Is the modem noticeably different > from the Wildcard in terms of quality? Does it do things the modem doesn't? > Basically, it it worth putting out an extra £90 for the Wildcard?Mike, Save yourself the heartache and skip the local FXO if you can. I tried several then just call forwarded the POTS line to an DID purchased from an ITSP. Much better quality. No echo issues. No futzing about with motherboards and IRQs. 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