[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hobby box

[Yiannis Costopoulos]

> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Russ Price
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:11 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hobby box
> 
> Funny you would say that - I have a box running with a pair of X100P 
> clones at the moment. I did have to tinker with transmit and receive 
> levels, but, since then, they have run just fine on my old 533 MHz 
> Celeron box, with no echo problems on 1.2.0 beta2 or rc2.  I 
> have them 
> hooked into the voice mail ports on a Panasonic KX-TA624, and 
> managed to 
> integrate it in as a voice mail system.
> 
> The main advantage for the TDM400 is that you can add FXS 
> ports, or you 
> could have four FXOs if you needed them.  Still, the TDM400's cost is 
> rather steep for a "hobby" box.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend trying to use more than one X100P card 
> unless you 
> can insure they get separate IRQs, and going with more than two would 
> probably not be a good idea.
> 
> 	Russ
Hi,

I am not surprised you managed to sort out your echo problems quickly
and easily. You see, the Panasonic KX-TA624 behaves the same every time,
while a PSTN line would have a varying quality, noise, echo every time,
depending on the other end sometimes.

Yiannis.