[asterisk-users] IAXy device

[Steve Totaro]

I had a customer using an IAXY (old gen) for an FXO fax machine and it
worked almost all the time so it cannot be that bad.

Maybe because the fax was very old and did not have high transmit rates.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC
<mojo at horanappraisals.com> wrote:
> I guess I've never run asterisk without ANY echo cans :)  It's just that
>  the echo was minor enough that MG2 et. al did a fine job.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Moj
>
>
>
>  Eric Wieling wrote:
>  > You will never get latency on a network low enough for echo to be
>  > perceived as sidetone (like on analog).  If you want to get rid of echo
>  > you must cancel echo.
>  >
>  > Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote:
>  >
>  >> Sean Dennis wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> bilal ghayyad wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>> Hi All;
>  >>>>
>  >>>> I have been chocked just when I saw some posts talking
>  >>>> about how much the IAXy is bad :) -
>  >>>>
>  >>>> So I would like to ask, did any one try it later and
>  >>>> wether it is good or not? I am asking this because I
>  >>>> need to use it as it is NAT Transparent (as I read
>  >>>> also, and I did not try it to see how much it is
>  >>>> transparent).
>  >>>>
>  >>>> What about codec? Why it is only support g711 and does
>  >>>> not support compressed codec? And what about the IP
>  >>>> address and the DNS usage and the DDNS usage?
>  >>>>
>  >>>> What main porblems contain and any advise?
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Regards
>  >>>> Bilal
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>       ____________________________________________________________________________________
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>> The device has no echo cancellation and sounds horrible (lots of echo)
>  >>> on about half of the analog phones I tried it on.  I wouldn't recommend
>  >>> it unless you absolutely need IAX. It's also very expensive for a 1 port
>  >>> ATA.
>  >>>
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>  >> Echo may be the result of latency on the network.  I've not had any echo
>  >> problems that I remember with my IAXy and I make ten calls a day, five
>  >> days a week, for the last few years, to all sorts of numbers/areas.  I
>  >> know that this isn't representative of typical business use, but
>  >> residential use, but I've been using in my business and have never been
>  >> disappointed :)
>  >>
>  >> I will agree that's is fairly expensive, but I WOULD recommend it to
>  >> people who are on the go often. After setup, it really is plug-n-play IMO.
>  >>
>  >> Moj
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