[asterisk-users] Credit Card processing machines

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

Certainly a sobering thought.  Have others had to deal with this in PBX 
replacement scenarios?  Its a giant cost savings in this case - they are 
dropping about 12 POTS lines in favor of utilizing (an underutilized) T1 
trunk that was already in place.

j

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Don E. Wisdom wrote:

> The ADT alarm going thru VoIP will create a life safety issue.  Hope you planned for that..
> --Don
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> On 2/17/09 6:31 AM, "Jeff LaCoursiere" <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 17:11, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
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>>> Anyone have much luck with these on ATA's?  I have a few sites that use
>>> them succesfully with multi-port Audiocodes boxes, but just connected ten
>>> machines to Linksys 2102s and they are very flaky.  Using u-law on a 100Mb
>>> switched network that is barely utilized, then out a T1 on a Sangoma card.
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>>> Perhaps there is some tuning on the Linksys or the credit card machine
>>> itself?  Going to look into reducing the baud rate on the machines, but
>>> sadly the bank has them password protected and wants to charge a
>>> "reprogramming fee" :(
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>> They make credit card terminals with Ethernet -- use that instead.
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> The client's processor charges 7c/transaction over IP (plus normal
> charges), so they are quite keen to keep it working the way it was before
> I replaced their PBX ;)
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> As a followup, *99 prepended on any Linksys ATA does indeed make a
> difference in modem reliability.  Both their CCs and their ADT alarm
> devices now function reliably.  I also reduced the CC baud rate to 300
> baud (!), and it is rock solid now!
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> j
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