[Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

[Karl S. Katzke]

Ooh. Jenny, your problem might be the motherboard. (I should know, I run 
that same motherboard at home as my gaming machine.) It's a piece of 
crud. I actually blew through four of them before I found one that 
worked properly. I wouldn't worry about the AGP running on there, but do 
make sure that X-windows isn't running on the box. If the consultant you 
hired installed a graphical environment, please give me his name and 
address so that I can drive over and kick him next time I'm visiting my 
sister.

Otherwise, yeah, what you've got is overkill. The Sempron and half a gig 
of RAM would be more than enough for you, and RAID is nice but you could 
probably have gotten away with software RAID or using the onboard 
softraid. I'm not even running RAID.

My clicking went away after I rewired my PSTN boxes. The contractor that 
wired them put them in 2-up ganged boxes, (2 jacks in each box, 2 lines 
running into each box) and that caused far too much interference. 
Replacing the wiring from the punchdown to the boxes and then the boxes 
themselves not only eliminated the clicking, it cancelled a good half of 
the echo. I still have some echo and I just had a call drop out 
unexpectedly with 'congestion'... gotta figure out how to fix that.

-K 

jennyw wrote:

> Dave Cotton wrote:
>
>> This was your first experience with *, was it also the installers?
>>
>> Only sharing with the next busiest card in the machine the one feeding
>> the IP phones.
>>  
>>
> Yeah, I know, in retrospect it sounds really odd that we did that, but 
> at the time he thought there was a chance it would work. I'm not sure 
> why -- he's done several installs before. It might be because we ended 
> up taking more time than intially planned to do the the install 
> (Murphy's Law and all that).
>
> The hardware we have, by the way, is:
>
> AMD Sempron 2400+
> 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP (2 channel SATA RAID)
> Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
> 1 GB RAM
> Jetway Radeon 9000 64MB 128Bit 4X AGP DVI/TV Out Dual Head
>
> We're using the on-board NICs. From what people have said, that could 
> be a problem (in addition to the IRQ sharing issue), so I'm off buying 
> Intel NICs now (I don't think the store has eepro 100s -- I think all 
> the Intel cards they have are gigabit now, but that shouldn't make 
> much difference should it?).
>
> I'm not sure if I can change the IRQ setting on the Radeon, but will 
> try. Can the Digium cards change IRQs?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
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