[asterisk-users] No Dialtone

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:10:14PM -0500, Rich Adamson wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:31:16AM -0500, Rich Adamson wrote:
> >>If you've messed up in connecting telephone lines to the wrong module, 
> >>the ringing voltage sent to a fxs module will destroy it. You would need 
> >>to replace the module.
> >
> >I'm going to stick my neck out here, and opine that any FXS module that
> >would be destroyed by receiving ringing voltage is *incredibly* poorly
> >designed, and very probably wouldn't pass Part 68.  "Shouldn't", certainly.
> 
> Try it and see what happens, and report back. ;)

I didn't say I didn't think current-day hardware *wasn't* designed that
poorly... *just* that it is, in fact, poor design.  (He says, having
see the footage of someone continuing to talk on a 500 desk phone after
someone put a .308 rifle bullet through the network during the call...)

Cheers,
-- jra
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