I knew I should have ordered more than one extra (someone beat you to my reserve).
The ??? portion is called an FXS (Foreign Exchange Station I think...) As for other cards, I bought a Digium TDM400P with 1 FXO, and 1 FXS port through netvoice.ca last week, and it finally arrived yesterday (8 calendar days). Apparently my definition of "expedited service", and Canada Post's differs drastically. The total ended up being $313.21 CND. I'm happy with it so far (just got it set up this morning). I initially panicked when I got the following message when attempting to load the drivers: Mar 17 04:32:27 localhost kernel: Freshmaker failed register test Mar 17 04:32:27 localhost kernel: wctdm: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5 But then I calmed down, and realised I'd built the drivers for the linux 2.4 kernel, not linux 2.6. After I stopped doing stupid things, it worked fine, and I was able to place calls between my laptop and a plain old telephone plugged into the FXS port. There's something really cool about plugging your trusty old phone into a computer that only has an ethernet cable going into it, and getting a dialtone. If you don't mind using more than one PCI slot, the TDM Developer kit costs a bit less, and comes with a TDM400P with 1 FXS module and an X100P FXO card. Andrew mentioned that he bought his equipment directly from Digium, and that the shipping was far faster, but I don't know how much he paid for shipping and brokerage fees. But as we were discussing before, the TDM400P is a pretty expensive way to get FXS ports for your home phonesets. The first port costs you $179, and each additional one is $110... At that price, you might as well buy SIP phones. re, spd On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:24:25 -0500, Fulko Hew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon P. Ditner wrote: > > >I'm ordering an X100P FXO OEM card off of ebay: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44940&item=6750339686&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW > > > >Anyone else want one? Send me an email if you do. > > > > Presumably, you've already place the order, and its too late for me to > get in on it? > > Even if its too late I'd still like to hear about the experience w.r.t > brokerage fees. > > >-- > > > >What does an FXO port do? It takes your phone line from the wall jack > >into your computer so that in and outbound calls can be processed by > >asterisk. The device is essentially a winmodem. > > > >What it does not do? It does not allow you to connect your phone set > >up as an extension in asterisk. > > > > I figure that would be a great thing to have to, so that you could > place Asterisk between your point-of-presence connection, and your > internal phones (at home) > > I'll have to look to see what Digium may offer that does both FXO and ??? > before I dive into playing with Asterisk :-() > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- .:. Simon P. Ditner, Asterisk nut, http://uc.org/asterisk .:.
