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

[Peter Pauly]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:26:03PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Assuming that you can do native zaptel bridging (Going from an FXS port to
> an FXO port in the same machine), you should be able to get up to 33.6. 
> No 56k, unfortunately, because of the multiple D/A & A/D conversions.
> 
> If you're codecing the audio and passing it over IP, you should be able to
> get 33.6 if you use ulaw (non-compressed) encoding.  Any of the
> compression based codecs will most likely make your modem link up at 9600
> or a flaky 14.4.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Or spend a few bucks and get yourself one of the ethernet card kits.  Then
> you don't have to worry about ppp connections and you can drag the video
> off the unit as well.

I can't use the networking kits because it is a DirecTivo HDVR2. Supplying
this thing with dial-tone is a consideration for me before I dump my POTS 
line.