[Asterisk-Users] X100P question about odd behavior

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 21:43, Jim Archer wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> I have installed a single X100P card in my PC and am playing
> with Asterisk. The wire I plugged into the X100P has two POTS
> lines on it, wired on the RJ45 in the normal way.

1.  It's not two POTS lines.  The second port is a pass-through
port.
2.  RJ45 is 4 pair.  The port on the back of the X100P is 1
pair -- RJ11.

> I am getting odd behavior.  It seems when I dial out that the
> X100P dials both lines at the same time.

That's understandable; if you've connected two lines together,
the X100P will take the line off hook.  It has no way of knowing
that you've plugged two lines together.

> I have two questions.
>
> First, I see that the X100P is only a single channel.  Does
> this mean that I can only use one POTS line with it?  When I
> installed it I thought that it would support two POTS lines. 
> I guess I thought this because it has an ordinary phone jack
> that had 4 little metal fingers in it.

Yes; it's only one channel and it can only handle one line at
once.

> Is it possible that the X100P is really dialing both lines at
> the same time and if so is there a way to stop this?

Don't connect two lines together via the pass-through port?

-Tilghman