[Asterisk-Users] Modems and Tivos? Oh my!

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:22, Peter Pauly wrote:
> Does the Digium FXS card support modems (and Tivo devices)?
> If so, to what speed have they been tested?

Why would one use dialup for a TiVo. My TiVo has never touched a
telephone line ever. When I bought it I hacked it to work over my cable
modem link using PPP to my workstation and have never risked loosing the
internal hardware. 

> Also, on a somewhat unrelated question:
> How does the FXS card generate ringing voltages
> if the PC only supplies 12 volts?

Probably with similar laws of electricity that allows car spark plugs to
operate in excess of 50K volts when the battery only supplies 12volts,
or that allow flourescent lights to run at a few k volts while the wall
puts out 110 or 220.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>