[Asterisk-Users] GTW V.92 modem work with asterisk?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On November 10, 2004 04:12 pm, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote:
> I don't think it is a good idea to swamp the list with "does my modem
> work with Asterisk" messages. I fear that some people are soon going
> to become very angry if this trend continues.

While your message is a good one:

> No modems will work other than one particular modem design based on
> the Intel/Ambient MD3200 chipset. Anything that does not use the this
> chip *will not work*.

I think there's a FAR better one to send.

If you don't know what you're doing, USE THE EFFING SUPPORTED HARDWARE.  The 
only thing I find MORE annoying than people asking if their FooWare $0.25 
modem that was in their mom's computer will work it's people who come in and 
say "What's the ABSOLUTE BAREST MINIMUM SMALLEST hardware I need to run 
Asterisk?"

People -- if you have to ask, you are *not* sufficiently experienced to try 
and optimize an Asterisk install!  Premature optimization is *the* number one 
cause of unhappy Asterisk users.

Get it working, *THEN* start to play around.  Hell, if you get the FooWare 
modems to work with *, write it up so others can learn from your 
experiences...  but FFS do NOT start throwing these kinds of questions 
around!

-A.