[asterisk-users] connecting asterisk (trixbox) to traditional phone lines?

[Doug Crompton]

try....

http://www.digitnetworks.com/X100P_FXO_PCI_Card_p/x100p.htm

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:25:45PM -0500, cb wrote:
> > On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:15 PM, blackwater dev wrote:
> >
> > >I have trixbox working how I want.  How do I now (cheaply as
> > >possibly) get a phone number so people can call it from any
> > >number?  I am just doing a prototype so just want it done cheaply
> > >so I can demo it to my supervisors.
> >
> > I just went thru this recently. I ended up buying a compatible modem
> > on Ebay. You can find them easily if you search for FXO or X100 but
> > then you may also end up paying a premium to get one that is
> > specifically being sold to the Asterisk community. (keep in mind
> > "premium" being around $30, so we still aren't talking about an
> > outrageous price)
>
> Those 30$ cards are as good as the 10$ cards. Same low quality. They are
> nice for playing games. If you're lucky enough it may actually work for
> you. In the worst case you only lost 30$ ...
>
> >
> > What I did was checked the voip-info.org wiki on modem based FXOs and
> > then searched ebay for modems listed with the correct chipsets. I
> > lucked out and found one for $2.00 (with shipping I think it cost me
> > $8.00 total). Mine is shows up as a Motorola X100 (or something to
> > that effect). Seems to work fine, although I wasn't able to get
> > Caller-ID working correctly (but I think that was a settings issue
> > and I stopped pursuing it as it wasn't important for my pitching
> > Asterisk).
>
> I don't recall any special issues with caller ID with X100P.
>
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