[Asterisk-Users] FXO Cards in Australia

[Gonzalo Servat]

I'll be speaking to Guy tomorrow about this. Guy is certainly a helpful
& friendly guy and I'm sure he'll be keen to hear about these echo
problems.

Regards,
Gonzalo


On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 00:48, Bryan Nolen wrote:
> Re: these problems with the NetJet Cards: have people spoken with Traverse
> about them? I have found them to be most helpful with any problems (mainly
> with the Pulsar PCI ADSL cards)
> 
> Try talking to guy at traverse.com.au ?
> 
> -Bryan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Gonzalo Servat
> > Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:18 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FXO Cards in Australia
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 23:53, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > > Yes, echo problems do still exist, I would suggest testing it before
> > > going live.
> > 
> > Yeah, so I've heard.
> > 
> > > A couple of points to note:
> > > 1) Using soft phones seems to compound the issue
> > 
> > So the echo problems are not so bad when using software phones?
> > 
> > > 2) A faster CPU seems to help (I upgraded from a PII300 to a Athlon
> > > 2200)
> > > 3) When dialling in/out over the ISDN DTMF won't work (at least I
> > > haven't seen the patch which purportedly allows it to work) 
> > when you use
> > > the isdn4linux patch.
> > 
> > This is specific to the NetJet card once again, right? Time to go
> > hunting for the patch...
> > 
> > > 4) Without the above kernel patch you will hear DTMF tones 
> > instead of
> > > the other persons voice when they talk. They don't hear the tones or
> > > notice anything wrong.
> > 
> > Hmm, not good. Since we want to run a small IVR the DTMF 
> > tones are kinda
> > needed.
> > 
> > > In short, if you can live with the above problems, then you 
> > can get away
> > > with it, from what I know now, I would suggest getting a chan_capi
> > > capable device, though I haven't tried that yet.
> > 
> > The NetJet is supposedly CAPI capable. Have you tried installing this?
> > --> http://www.junghanns.net/asterisk/page1.html
> > 
> > > I am about to switch from a netjet card to a TE4xxP card as soon as
> > > possible, I have a OnRamp 10 being installed tomorrow. This 
> > is largely
> > > to increase the number of incoming lines, but partly to resolve the
> > > above issues, and also partly to try to resolve long 
> > running reliability
> > > issues which may in fact be related to the TDM400P anyway. 
> > In which case
> > > I will be looking for a T1 channel bank some time soon :(
> > 
> > Argh, the fun never stops :)
> > 
> > > PS, I have a brand new Traverse Netjet card available (it 
> > was to be used
> > > for a dial-up ISDN internet account) which is no longer needed.
> > 
> > How much do you want for it? If you can confirm whether the 
> > capi channel
> > driver works with it and reduces the echo problem, I'll be interested.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Gonzalo
> > 
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