[asterisk-users] Please Advice on Best High traffic fxo gateway/cards

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 11:03 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Brian J. Murrell
> <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 17:43 +0300, James Mutuku wrote:
> >> Please advice on  "channel bank"
> >
> > Dude.  There's the cool new website you should check out.  It's
> > www.google.com.
> >
> > Seriously.  This list is not full of people waiting to do the simplest
> > research at your request.  Spend a few minutes and do some self-help
> > before coming here asking the simplest, most general questions.  You are
> > more likely to get answers to interesting questions rather than
> > mundane-google-would-have-told-you-all-you-need-to-know-in-5-minutes
> > questions.
> >
> > b/
> 
> While true to some degree, I assumed he was looking for someone to
> recommend a certain product based on good experiences in the Asterisk
> World.

See, I saw the quotes around channel bank more as the follow question
"what is a channel bank".  Maybe it's a language thing and perhaps the
OP can take as constructive criticism to be more to one's actual point
when asking a question.

If he really did understand what a channel bank is and was looking for
recommendations, something more direct like "Any recommendations on
which channel bank(s) I should consider using?" would have been much
more fruitful I suspect.

> Google may be good for getting information but will turn up a good
> many ads too.  Most of these ads/sites all claim to be the best.  "We
> are the leaders of (such and such)"

Sure, but all of them will give him a good idea of what one actually is,
which is really what I suspect the question was.

> An obvious pitfall I met was Citel gateways.  Maybe they have improved
> for the Definity line, but going that route a year and a half ago made
> me look very bad.  I wish I had asked on the list and got someone with
> some experience to say, "think twice".

Agreed.  I wholeheartedly agree with soliciting for and giving product
recommendations and experiences, but questions like "what is ..." most
likely can almost always be answered from google with a little effort on
one's own behalf.

b.

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