[asterisk-users] Re: What's the story with X10*P FXO cards?

[Martin Joseph]

On Jul 9, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Vincent Delporte wrote:
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Thanks for the info. This little experiment is getting expensive ;-)

LOL!  I know that feeling... I actually thought I would save money with 
VOIP, what a joke!  Actually I am happy with my setup,  but spent an 
intial $75(us) thinking the HT-488 would provide an FXO for my PSTN 
connection, only to find it doesn't work well enough to actually use 
for that.

I then spent an additional $200(us) for the Wellgate 3701a (1FXS+1FXO) 
which, although horribly documented is a HUGE improvement over the 
Grandstream garbage (HT-488).

So yeah,  it gets expensive quickly.  It's annoying that so many of the 
products are marginal or straight up garbage,  but I guess we are still 
in the infancy of the standards based VOIP business, and many of the 
products are in search of a firmware update, or a decent manual.

Oh well, More work for the stubborn techo-maniacs who refuse to give 
up(like me).