[Cialug] Tribox

[Nathan Smith]

Agreed.  Just about anything is better than one of those X100P-type cards.  They are OK for a Zaptel timing source if you want to be able  to do IAX trunking, but I would not put a phone call over the card itself.  It is nearly impossible to eliminate echo on them.

-Nate

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Theron Conrey
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:57 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Tribox

If you intend to do more than use it as a timing source, spend some money on getting a better quality card.  You'll be fighting multiple issues, some of which will only be fixed with new hardware.

>From Chapter 4 of Asterisk: The future of Telephony, pg 74:

"The older Digium X100P card used a Motorola chipset, and the X101P
(which Digium sold before completely switching to the TDM400P) is
based on the Ambient/Intel MD3200 chipset. These cards are modems
with drivers adapted to utilize the card as a single FXO device (the tel-
ephone interface cannot be used as an FXS port). Support for the X101P
card has been dropped in favor of the TDM series of cards.
These cards (or their clones) SHOULD NOT be used in production en-
vironments. They are $10 on eBay for a reason.
The X100P/X101P cards are poor cards for production use due to their
tendency to introduce echo into your telephone calls, and their lack of
remote disconnect supervision. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your
time with this hardware. You will find that if you ask the community
for support of these cards, many responses will be hostile. You have
been warned."




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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of jrnosee at gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Tribox

You need something the trixbox/asterisk will see as a generic X100P card.  I think those have a specific chipset.  I have a generic card from when i was playing with asterisk some time ago.  I could probably sell it at this point, though I warn...the sound quality isn't that great.  If I was to make a suggestion...buy an external ATA like one of the sipura devices.  I haven't had one of those myself, but I'm betting the quality's better, and you can move it wherever you have a ethernet line.

--Justin

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:18 PM, Neal Daringer <neal.daringer at gmail.com<mailto:neal.daringer at gmail.com>> wrote:
you just need a modem? not one of them fancy FX0 things that i've read in the manual for asterisk ??

On 3/23/07, Aaron Porter < atporter at gmail.com<mailto:atporter at gmail.com>> wrote:
On 3/23/07, Neal Daringer < neal.daringer at gmail.com<mailto:neal.daringer at gmail.com>> wrote:
> correct me if im wrong but you can set it up to use as a pots gateway as
> well right?

True. There are even some dirt cheap soft-modems that'll work for that
(on ebay).
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