[Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards

[Karl Dyson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Adam Goryachev
> Sent: 12 October 2004 04:20
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards
> 
> > Wow, that's a really sucky attitude.  I would expect 
> *Digium* to tell 
> > him to go away and solve his own problems.  However, if the user 
> > community does that, then this is one of the suckiest user 
> communities 
> > I've run across in the free software world, and I've been 
> doing free software for many years.
> 
> Well, IMHO, I would expect it perfectly reasonable for one of 
> three responses from the 'user' community (in order of likelihood):
> 
> 1) A resounding non-response
> 2) A response of "Well, get a X101P or TDMx0P and try it
> 3) Some advice on how to resolve the problem.
> 

I think it's a good thing the rest of the user community (IMHO) doesn't appear to follow your lead then!

I bought a £20 generic X101P from a local voip hardware supplier, and am rather pleased I did. It works most of the time, but drops calls occasionally. I originally thought this might be due to it being a cheap card, but I now find out that the Digium X100P/X101P is the same card with a heatsink, and is 5 times more expensive. Nice. Additionally, the problem appears to be that the AMD Duron/VIA chipset combination in my server doesn't get along with the X10(0|1)P cards, and so if I'd bought the pricey card, I'd still have problems, only solvable by another purchase, and also be significantly out of pocket.

FYI: I found all this out by use of Google, and the user community. I go searching for my solutions, and have not called Digium once, and would not expect them to answer calls on my card.

To resolve my problem, I may buy a Sipura-3000, I may buy a Digium TDM card. One I woiuld expect support from Digium for, one I would not.

Both I would expect to be able to *ask* a question here, and I would *hope* that people that had heard of what I'm using would respond. I would also hope that people that had ever heard of it would keep quiet rather than waste my bandwidth baiting me as to why I didn't buy their pet hardware choice of the moment.

Cheers for now,

Karl

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