[asterisk-users] Question about hardware

Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com
Wed Dec 13 07:51:14 MST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:29 -0600, jason wrote:
> cheapy PC (throw away PII is fine) and if you want to use the PSTN, a 
> X100P FXO card. These can be had on ebay for 11 bucks, but I understand 
> that even that pushes the bank some days.  You don't need the card, you 
> only need it if you want to receive or place calls on the PSTN.  You can 
> use asterisk to do all sorts of ip telephony with just the box that it 
> runs on.   Also, be sure to grab the free Oreily book, Asterisk the 
> Future of Telephony.  A link to it was posted recently.

I ordered the card off ebay.  Is there anything else I'd need - special
cords, phones, etc?  I'd have to try for them next month or after, but
I'd prefer to know what they are now so that I can be looking for
them...



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