[asterisk-users] Questions on X100P/X101P cards

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I'd say in life you get what you pay for.. and sometime you even pay for
stuff that should be free..

These knockoff cards, can be built in-house for 20$ or less using an old
walkie talkie, a rope, some standard matches, and an old MCgyver Tv
episode..They do just that, echo the sound back to the other end.. no
seriously..

Used 3, all 3 where thrown out either a window, or another opening .. 

It's great for testing don't get me wrong, once PSTN echo starts to drive
you or the other party mad , or your cheap cap's start to go off specs,
you'll say "I should of bought 1 of the 50$ instead of 5 of the $10 ones"..
of course, same strategy goes with china knockoffs, you run 6 pair of shoes
for the price of 1 that lasts 6 times the other..

So basically for 10$ try it out..

Then when you want 2-3 ports, or do voice rec (spynx openmrc etc whatever)
you'll need quality

My 0.02


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Joakimsen
>>Sent: May-06-09 7:01 PM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Questions on X100P/X101P cards
>>
>>I use these cards and they work pretty well. FWIW when Digium sold
>>them they were also just winmodems with a resistor removed to change
>>the PCI device ID. Later on the Zaptel driver included the device ID
>>of the winmodem.
>>
>>I used to be able to get the winmodem itself for under $10, but I
>>think they are discontinued now. Ambient = Intel, FWIW. If you want
>>I'll dig out out and give you the details.
>>
>>If you need a large quantity I would try to find the winmodems that
>>are compatible.
>>
>>
>>On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 08:43, Vincent <vincent.delporte at bigfoot.com>
>>wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>        I'm looking for a dirt cheap solution for SOHO use to handle
>>at most
>>> a couple of POTS lines, and I notice that X10?P cards go for $15 on
>>> eBay as opposed to $90 for an OpenVox card or over $200 for a
>>Sangoma.
>>>
>>> I have a couple of questions about those cheap FXO cards:
>>>
>>> 1. Are they all glorified softmodems, ie. none has an on-board CPU or
>>> DSP and outsources all processing to the computer's CPU?
>>>
>>> 2. Are they all bad, no matter what chipset is used (Intel, Motoral,
>>> Ambient)? If not, which offer good enough quality to handle a single
>>> POTS line?
>>>
>>> 3. Why are they often bad quality? Because the driver itself is badly
>>> written? Because PC's don't have enough speed to handle the tasks
>>> using their own CPU (hard to believe, but I don't know)?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
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