[Asterisk-Users] Re: Choosing an FXO card, Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 100

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:55:28PM -0600, steve wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:18:18 +0000
> From: Mike Hemstock <mike at csits.net>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Choosing an FXO card
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> Folks,
> 
> I'm looking at buying an FXO card for my home Asterisk setup.  The question 
> I have is, should I got for a the Digium Wildcard FXO or settle for the 
> winmodem that Digium sell?  
>  I have spoken to the UK distributor and they 
> only sell the Wildcard.  They said that the quality of the modem was 
> questionable.  Does anyone have any experience of this?  Is the modem 
> noticeably different from the Wildcard in terms of quality?  Does it do 
> things the modem doesn't?  Basically, it it worth putting out an extra £90 
> for the Wildcard?

Digium no longer sells the X100P.

X100P clones are considerbly cheaper (~10-20$ in ebay, if you include s&h),
however they are not as good. You may encounter problems in countries
other than the US.

You'll laos need http://www.lusyn.com/asterisk/patches.html if you want
it to be able to read caller ID.

See also the following (and confusing, I must say) page:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/X100P+clone

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