[Asterisk-Users] Analog FXO Woes Continue

[Paul Dugas]

I've been struggling with a test * install for a couple months now in a
small office and am just about ready to give up on it.  It's not that the
system itself is a problem.  I've got everything (attendant, voicemail,
FXS extensions, Cisco and Polycom hard-IP phones, and 2 VOIP carriers)
working except for the frigging analog FXO interfaces.  These things are
driving me completely mad.  Since this is obvioiusly a deal breaker, I'm
looking for any more suggestions on how I might fet these things working.

The hitch is pretty clearly the quality of the lines I have from BellSouth
but I can't get thim to identify anything wrong.  I have tried a Digium
1-port FXO card (can't remember part number and it's no longer on  their
site, hmmm...) as well as a Sipura SPA3000.  With both of these
interfaces, I'm getting consistent mis-dials on outbound calls, broken
inbound fax-detection, broken DTMF detection in the attendant menus. 
Hours of adjustments to the gains on the Digium card only added echo and
failed to reduce the offurenc of the other issues.  These same two
interfaces worked fine on a line at my office so I'm pretty sure the issue
is with the lines at the test site.

So, what are my options here for interfacing with these lines?  Would the
channel-bank route affect this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Paul

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