[Asterisk-Users] FXO/FXS suggestions:

[Michael Graves]

On Sun, 15 May 2005 23:37:28 -0500, Jon Gabrielson wrote:

>On Sunday 15 May 2005 09:53 pm, Paul wrote:
>>
>> Do you have the clout to get a handytone for evaluation and not have
>> salespeople calling you every day to ask how it's going? :)
>>
>
>Why not just buy one?  You can buy one for less than $100 and if you
>don't like it, you can just turn around and sell it on ebay and get
>most if not all of your money back.  What are the chances of someone
>who can't spend $100 on a item making it worthwhile for a company to
>spend time and money giving them an evaluation unit.

I had an SPA-300...and just sold it off on Ebay. I replaced it with a
TDM400 cards, which I just took out of service as well. The big issue
with the SPA-3000 for me was the combination of echo and analog line
level on the FXO. I could never get it quite loud enough and was always
straining to head while jacking up the volume on my Polycom IP 600
phones.

My solution was a hack that was supposed to be short term, but has
worked so well I may stick with it. I had call forwarding put on my one
remaining POTS line and forwarded it to a DID that I had setup through
an ITSP but was not using heavily. Now all incomming analog calls go
through that ITSP and actually arrive via my DSL. I can shut off call
forwarding and answer the line with a backup analog handset if my DSL
goes out.

I had set this up to help me bridge a new server into production. That
machine is a small form factor box running Astlinux. At the time
Astlinux did not support the TDM card. It does as of the 0.2.6 release,
but the call forwarding trick sounds better than the TDM.

Michael

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