[Asterisk-Users] Digium T100P T1 Card

[Wiley Siler]

Peter,

I also made it a point to voice my appreciation and recognize the fact
that Stephen is major contributor here.  I also acknowledged his
generous explanations.  I have also since replied to his reply and
thanked him again as well.  

A consultant so I can get a T1 PRI on my wall and use it with my
Asterisk box?  LMAO.  That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  I
need a consultant so I can get a T1 with PRI?  Please.  I am just trying
to better understand how the Digium PRI card works and how it
interconnects to the ISP.

I checked the Wiki and I checked Digium.  Neither one said "install PRI
card and no other router is needed".  Or rather, what I did find was the
reference that said that your * box will act as a router with the PRI
card.  Then it clicked and I got it.  Having never had a PRI T1, I did
not know it would be unlike my current T1 which has an AdTran to break
out my voice from the data.  So asking how to connect the Digium card
seemed natural for this discussion. 

Again, thank you for you contribution to the discussion and for offering
your view.  If my previous response was offensive to anyone, especially
Stephen, I apologize.  If it is not clear, I view the gurus here as
generous contributors.  I just generally don't like to feel criticized
or spoken down to when I am just asking a simple honest question. Isn't
that the point of this all?  I mean, it is not like I am asking how to
insert a PCI card or something.  Maybe that is the price to pay but
really I think it just is not usually needed.  It would be so much
easier to just not respond if what I have sent is so horrible.
Sometimes I think that this response is just because so many questions
are asked and people get tired of poor formatting and such.  Regardless,
my OWA was to blame for part of that.  Speed typing was the other.

Besides, asking how my T100P interconnects is hardly fishing for general
telecom knowledge.  The questions were specific to the hardware from
Digium.  That makes it pretty relevant I think.  I am googling up other
stuff mentioned by Stephen right now. 

Thanks all,
Wiley



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Svensson
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:40 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Digium T100P T1 Card

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Wiley Siler wrote:

> So, I need to learn more about voice T1s?  Reeally?  That would be why

> I am posting to the user group in the first place.  To learn more.
> The wiki says nothing about how PRI works because it is expected that 
> someone will know.  Well, I didn't.  Had to ask.  After cruising ebay 
> for 30 minutes looking at routers and reading the tech spec on the 
> T100P, I figured out the very same thing regarding the fact that no 
> router was needed.

[snip]

> However, was there that much need for the criticism and arrogance in 
> your reply?  Wouldn't it just be esier not to reply at all than start 
> off with a complaint about my HTML formatting, go to a critique of how

> I formatted my 4 sentence email (paragraph for 4 sentences?), and 
> finish up by pointing out that I don't know much about voice T1s?

Normally I can be quite critical of the sometimes brusque replies on
this list but the reply Steven sent was filled with information. He
started out by saying that he found your email hard to read and the
reasons why. He then stated that you have a lot to learn about T1/isdn
pri which is probably true. This is a complex subject and if you are not
familiar with it it may be a good idea to hire a consultant who is. 

This list is really not meant as a general educational tool for digital
telecom. There are such resources elsewhere on the net. Once you have
done your homework and is more knowledgeable on the topics of
telecommunications you are in a better position to ask questions
regarding Asterisk. At that point you will probably receive a lot more
help from the members of this list.

Peter



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