asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Re: Choosing an FXO card, Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 100

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:18:18 +0000
From: Mike Hemstock <mike@csits.net>
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card
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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.

I tried the X100P clone under two circumstances.  The first time was at home
using and older system
and it would be slow to disconnect and answer incoming calls so I shelved it for
a few months.  I then
tried it in a Dell server I had sitting around the office and it worked just
fine. I suppose the real issue
would be the system you are planning on installing it in.  I think that either
of the cards are rather rough
on a systems pci bus so faster is better.  If you are just wanting to play and
experiment I would go with
the clone card and see how it works.

Your milage may vary,
Steve Cayona

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:55:28PM -0600, steve wrote:
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:18:18 +0000
> From: Mike Hemstock <mike@csits.net>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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> 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?
Digium no longer sells the X100P.

X100P clones are considerbly cheaper (~10-20$ in ebay, if you include s&h),
however they are not as good. You may encounter problems in countries
other than the US.

You'll laos need http://www.lusyn.com/asterisk/patches.html if you want
it to be able to read caller ID.

See also the following (and confusing, I must say) page:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/X100P+clone

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On 1/17/06, steve <steve@supertec.com> wrote:
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:18:18 +0000
> From: Mike Hemstock <mike@csits.net>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>         <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
> Message-ID: <200601160018.18517.mike@csits.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 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.

Mike,
I have 2 x X100P clones in my home Asterisk box (in the UK) volume levels on
outgoing speech seems to be on the low side, increasing gain increases echo.
They are not great but have been working for 18 months or so for me.
I think I paid about 12ukp on Ebay, oh and about 4.50ukp postage!!

I'm currently evaluating/testing the Sangoma 2 x FXO and 2 x FXS card
but not had chance recently to do thorough testing.
see http://www.g6phf.co.uk/
Mike


>
> I tried the X100P clone under two circumstances.  The first time was at
home using and older system
> and it would be slow to disconnect and answer incoming calls so I shelved
it for a few months.  I then
> tried it in a Dell server I had sitting around the office and it worked
just fine. I suppose the real issue
> would be the system you are planning on installing it in.  I think that
either of the cards are rather rough
> on a systems pci bus so faster is better.  If you are just wanting to play
and experiment I would go with
> the clone card and see how it works.
>
> Your milage may vary,
> Steve Cayona
>
>
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