[Asterisk-Users] X100P question about odd behavior

[Jim Archer]

--On Friday, March 07, 2003 11:44 AM +0500 Wasim Baig 
<wasim at convergence.com.pk> wrote:

> An RJ-11 has 4 pins and is the most commonly used POTS physical interface
>
> Do you have a RJ-11 breakout box handy?  If so, you should be able to
> isolate where the lines are getting shorted.

Well, the line has two pairs on it, on the red/green pair and the 
blk/yellow pair.  I am not sure which pins those correspond to on the 
connector so I'm sure your right (it seems the inner pins are one pair and 
the outer pins another).  This is the same cable I use with my analog 2 
line phone and that works fine.  The only time the lines are shorted seems 
to be when the line is plugged into the X100P card.

I appreciate everyone's help!  I easily solved this problem by simply using 
a wire with only 1 pair in it. I was just surprised when I dialed out from 
Asterisk to my cell phone and heard (at the same time) the ringing and my 
cell's voice mail! I don't think its a good idea for the card to combine 
the pairs like it seems to be doing.  It seems this would allow ring 
voltage from one pair to get into the other.

Otherwise, things are working nicely.  After a few hours of fiddling I have 
a nice answering system.  I still need to build a nested IVR but that looks 
like it won't be too hard.  I just ordered a $200.00 computer from Walmart 
to host Asterisk.  So I get a pretty darned good system for < $400.00 
(computer plus dev kit).  This thing rocks!

Jim