[asterisk-users] connecting asterisk (trixbox) to traditional phone lines?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:25:45PM -0500, cb wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:15 PM, blackwater dev wrote:
> 
> >I have trixbox working how I want.  How do I now (cheaply as  
> >possibly) get a phone number so people can call it from any  
> >number?  I am just doing a prototype so just want it done cheaply  
> >so I can demo it to my supervisors.
> 
> I just went thru this recently. I ended up buying a compatible modem  
> on Ebay. You can find them easily if you search for FXO or X100 but  
> then you may also end up paying a premium to get one that is  
> specifically being sold to the Asterisk community. (keep in mind  
> "premium" being around $30, so we still aren't talking about an  
> outrageous price)

Those 30$ cards are as good as the 10$ cards. Same low quality. They are
nice for playing games. If you're lucky enough it may actually work for
you. In the worst case you only lost 30$ ...

> 
> What I did was checked the voip-info.org wiki on modem based FXOs and  
> then searched ebay for modems listed with the correct chipsets. I  
> lucked out and found one for $2.00 (with shipping I think it cost me  
> $8.00 total). Mine is shows up as a Motorola X100 (or something to  
> that effect). Seems to work fine, although I wasn't able to get  
> Caller-ID working correctly (but I think that was a settings issue  
> and I stopped pursuing it as it wasn't important for my pitching  
> Asterisk).

I don't recall any special issues with caller ID with X100P.

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