[asterisk-users] Maximum cable length for analog phone from FXS port

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> The best a native cat5 can run is 100 meters.  Unless you like paying your
> telco huge bucks, you should go for some kind of SIP connection to your box.
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He was asking about an analog telco connection - not an ethernet drop.

j

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> Hello.
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> I am looking for details of the maximum allowed/usable/effective wire/cable
> length of the connection from a FXS port of Digium analog cards to the
> analog telephone handset.
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> To clarify my intention, I need to have an analog telephone connection to my
> asterisk box that is 3000 meters (3km) away at least. If you have any
> details of ATA boxes or other similar devices that I could use to do this,
> I'd appreciate your input. It must be able to use a regular analog telephone
> handset on the far end.
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> I've searched high and low and either I'm not clever enough in using the
> right terms for this or it is rarely documented?
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> Any details much appreciated.
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> Thank you!
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> Baldvin
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