[asterisk-users] fxotune question
John Morey
jbmorey at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 18:22:32 CDT 2008
I'm using software echo cancellation. ztcfg says its MG2. In zapata.conf I
have echocancel=64 and echotraining=256 set. I'm going to try Digium's hpec.
I've did an online request for the free licenses, I'm using Digium TDM400
and TDM800 series cards, yesterday and am waiting to hear back.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com>
wrote:
> John Morey wrote:
> > I switch the wires in lines 5-8 (i.e. reversed tip and ring) and reran
> > fxotune to tune the lines. fxotune.conf ended up looking exactly the
> same
> > as before the change. Since I was expecting/hopping to see a change but
> did
> > not I switched everything back to the way it was. Is there a way to test
> the
> > lines, using a multi-meter maybe, to tell if the tip and ring are correct
> or
> > reversed?
> >
> > After putting things back I reran fxotune to get the verbose output. It,
> > foxtune.out.gz, is attached. fxotune seems to have had a better time
> with
> > line 7 during this run. fxotune.conf now contains:
> >
> > 5=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> > 6=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> > 7=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 8=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> > 9=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 10=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 11=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 12=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >
> > I tried calling directly into the lines above and it seems lines 5,6,8
> have
> > much more echo than lines 7,9,10. So just for fun I edited fxotune.conf
> to
> > the following and reloaded (fxotune -s) it:
> >
> > 5=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 6=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 7=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 8=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 9=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 10=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 11=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> > 12=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >
> > Unless I am just spacing out the echo on 5,6,8 seems less now. I really
> > have no idea what is going on.
>
> Ok, I looked at the output of you running fxotune. Basically, the lines
> that have numbers in them besides 0 (after the first two terms x=y,...)
> are the complex line simulation line models. The output you gave me
> demonstrated that they gave the best return loss characteristics using
> the built in test frequencies.
>
> It's possible that your setup is not performing well with these line
> models, which is why you might notice less echo using the second set of
> settings you listed above. Which echo canceller are you using with
> this, by the way? (Hardware, software, if software, which software echo
> canceller).
>
> Matthew Fredrickson
>
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> John Morey wrote:
> >>> Tilghman,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the pointer. I'll check this tomorrow and let you know.
> >> Also, I would like to see the output without the "-d" flag and with the
> >> "-v" flag. This will output a lot of data (the echo ratio for every
> >> possible coefficient setting it has tried per port).
> >>
> >> Matthew Fredrickson
> >>
> >>> John
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Tilghman Lesher <
> >>> tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:02:19 John Morey wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've run fxotune at different times but continue to get what seem to
> be
> >>>>> strange numbers in /etc/fxotune.conf. It ends up with:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 5=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> >>>>> 6=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> >>>>> 7=7,255,251,251,2,255,255,1,255
> >>>>> 8=9,2,250,253,4,252,0,255,255
> >>>>> 9=4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >>>>> 10=5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >>>>> 11=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >>>>> 12=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
> >>>>> ports 5-10 have lines hooked up to them. The first four lines seem
> >>>> strange
> >>>>> when compaired to what others have posted and what ports 9 and 10
> have.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also if I'm reading things right my echo ratios seem to be very
> >>>>> high. Running "fxotune -d -b 5 -w 1004" gives the following:
> >>>>> Dumping module /dev/zap/5
> >>>>> echo ratio = 0.1759 (1960.0 / 11145.0)
> >>>>> Which I read to be over 17%. This seems crazy. Am I reading this
> >> right?
> >>>>> Where should I start to look for problems?
> >>>> You might check to see if the tip and ring are reversed in your
> wiring.
> >>>> That
> >>>> can frequently cause weird echo problems.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Tilghman
> >>>>
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