<br><font size=2><tt>asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote on 11/15/2005
06:42:40 PM:<br>
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> That being said, and as I mentioned earlier, your cheapest choice
is <br>
> to go to eBay and search for X100P.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Here's a question: why are you building your
hobby box? To gain practical experience? Then forget the X100:
it's like learning Windows NT: yeah, the information might
be somewhat valid today, but it's way obselete. The X100 is dead,
and very unlamented. If you're just trying to build a fancy answering
machine with no other purpose, then fine: waste time on the X100.
But if there is any purpose to this, forget the X100P.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>This coming from the guy with 3 of them on the shelf,
collecting dust, purchased for $100 each!</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>> However, IMNSHO, your best choice <br>
> is to shell out somewhere around $100 for a Sipura SPA-3000. This
<br>
> will provide a way for you to connect your home phone line to <br>
> asterisk, and a way for you to connect an analog phone to asterisk
as <br>
> an extension.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>You've got three choices, really, on the low end:</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Digium TDM400 with one FXO port: $130</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Sipura SPA-3000 with one FXO and one FXS: $100</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Grandstream Handytone 486 with one FXO and one FXS:
$80</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Yes, you *can* buy an X100P clone for like $10 plus
S&H on eBay. Don't. You could get just as much experience
if you took the $15 you'd spend on the stupid thing and give them to a
VoIP provider like Junction Networks or TelIAX and use it.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>> It would be a good idea for you to spend some
time on google, voip- <br>
> info.org, asterisk.org, asteriskdocs.org, etc. searching for <br>
> information.<br>
</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Seconded.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Tim Massey</tt></font>
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