Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-30 Thread Tim C. Lewis
yeah this post is old and there have been dozens of replies, but here's some feedback for the list, now that i have some. we're using a sangoma a102 card (no hw ec) with 2 pris from sbc. asterisk 1.2.7.1, zaptel 1.2.6 (much testing previously with 1.2.5). we first used: KB1 (not aggressiv

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Paul Hales
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: I hate to tell you this, but if you have turned on the aggressive suppressor you aren't cancelling echo. You have turned your phone into a half-duplex communication medium. With the aggressive suppressor enabled, when zaptel detects you talking, it MUTES the received a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 03:30, Brian Swan wrote: > 2. Use fxotune in zaptel-trunk:  Find a silent-termination test   > number from the phone company and use FXOTune.  I couldn't get it to   > dial right in order to get silence on the line.  You can verify if   > it's working correctly by running

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread shadowym
; -Original Message- > From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:41 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up > > > OH God, 40 hours lost ! > > Yup.. at 20

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread mike
thank you very much for your feedback ! happy to hear that you agree with me perhaps the low quality of the phones have done the difference i'll try some polycom phones on the same configuration anyway, what about those echo canceling cards ? tnx! .mike On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:43 -0700, Martin

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread mike
you are right in everything and i'm not using the external speaker on the phones, i'm using them normally server A and B are IAX to IAX, codec ulaw and from phones to asterisk servers i'm using SIP, codec ulaw strange uh ? do you think it's an poor phone hardware problem ? thank you very much for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Martin Joseph
On Jun 20, 2006, at 4:45 PM, mike wrote: what's that ? where did u purchase is ? right now i'm having echo problems between two asterisk servers dealing with iax with ulaw codec, one in italy and the second in thailand in your opinion, it is possible that an echo issue is derived by low bandwid

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Matt
Are these two servers purely IAX to IAX? That is... are you on server A with a phone.. calling across IAX to server b, where it goes to a sip phone? If so, are you using speaker phone on the phones? sip/sip or iax/iax calls should be completely echo free. On 6/20/06, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread mike
what's that ? where did u purchase is ? right now i'm having echo problems between two asterisk servers dealing with iax with ulaw codec, one in italy and the second in thailand in your opinion, it is possible that an echo issue is derived by low bandwidth ? i thought this will end having delay/cho

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Matt
OH God, 40 hours lost ! Yup.. at 20$/hour that's 800$ that could have been put into a better piece of hardware. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lis

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Ralph Liebessohn
On 6/20/06, Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:30, Brian Swan wrote:> 3. Patience and lots of "vi zconfig.h": Try each echo canceler, with> and without the "Aggressive" option.  What eventually worked for me > was the MG2 with Aggressive cancelation.I hate to tel

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:30, Brian Swan wrote: > 3. Patience and lots of "vi zconfig.h": Try each echo canceler, with > and without the "Aggressive" option. What eventually worked for me > was the MG2 with Aggressive cancelation. I hate to tell you this, but if you have turned on the aggressive

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Matt
I eliminated my echo almost instantly by purchasing an echo canceling card :) I had about 30 minutes into to get the card installed and asterisk up and running. On 6/20/06, Brian Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I figured I'd answer my own thread and document what it took to get rid of the echo

[Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo -- Follow up

2006-06-20 Thread Brian Swan
I figured I'd answer my own thread and document what it took to get rid of the echo at my location. For those of you trying to get rid of echo, let me tell you, "what worked for that guy, probably won't work for you". I think we've all heard that before, and it's true. Let me assure you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Monday 12 June 2006 17:55, shadowym wrote: Believe me, you can drive yourself insane trying to come up with some magical formula that JUST works because it usually won't happen that way. Software echo cancellers are simply not good enough for many situations.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-12 Thread James Harper
> There is a spec for echo cancellation on PSTN called g.168. I believe > it's a > suite of tests which put the echo canceller through its paces and if you > pass > them you are certified to conform to g.168. None of the echo cancellers in > zaptel conform to this, whereas the Octasic, Tellabs an

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-12 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 12 June 2006 17:55, shadowym wrote: > Believe me, you can drive yourself insane trying to come up with some > magical formula that JUST works because it usually won't happen that way. > Software echo cancellers are simply not good enough for many situations. Actually that's untrue. I th

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-12 Thread shadowym
good fit for them. They may be better off with a cheap analog key system IMHO. > -Original Message- > From: Steve Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 5:25 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-12 Thread shadowym
IL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:16 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo > > On 6/8/06, Brian Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > I've followed the numerous s

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Ira
At 10:28 AM 6/9/2006, you wrote: reading that the 256 tap limit is "enforced" in software and that you can add/remove/whatever a few lines of code, and go up to 1024 (or greater I'd assume). Has anyone tried this? I'm considering attempting it this weekend to see if it does anything. Does more

[Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Dan Elder
I wrestled and wrestled with echo issues for months before finally just following the guide here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Tellabs+Hardware+Echo+Cancellers And with help from the list I was able to COMPLETELY remove all echo for under $100.. Requires a tiny bit of simple soldering, but i

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Andrei (MPI)
Brian, You may actually get better results lowering size of the buffer. Here are my settings that have been working nice so far on TDM400 (1+ year): echocancel=64 echotraining=800 echocancelwhenbridged=yes rxgain=2.0 txgain=-4.0 Notice difference between receive and transmit levels. That's es

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: On Jun 9, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Brian Swan wrote: Actually, that's what I started out with, and outboud calls were the same as now, inbound calls had a huge amount of echo (until I turned on Aggressive). In my testing I actually didn't not

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
Good to know -- thanks for the tips. I'll let every one know what voodoo and magic spells work (if any) :) On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: On Jun 9, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Brian Swan wrote: Actually, that's what I started out with, and outboud calls were the same as now

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Jun 9, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Brian Swan wrote: Actually, that's what I started out with, and outboud calls were the same as now, inbound calls had a huge amount of echo (until I turned on Aggressive). In my testing I actually didn't notice any difference between KB1 actually worked better the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Rich Adamson
Steve Underwood wrote: Rich Adamson wrote: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: The number of taps the EC has to deal with is the delay on the PSTN side. I can't imagine echo is more than a few ms in modern TDM networks. This latency has NOTHING to do with VoIP latency, since the echo must be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: The number of taps the EC has to deal with is the delay on the PSTN side. I can't imagine echo is more than a few ms in modern TDM networks. This latency has NOTHING to do with VoIP latency, since the echo must be canceled BEFORE it gets

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Rich Adamson
Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: The number of taps the EC has to deal with is the delay on the PSTN side. I can't imagine echo is more than a few ms in modern TDM networks. This latency has NOTHING to do with VoIP latency, since the echo must be canceled BEFORE it gets to the VoIP side of thi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
the audio path. But if you are going to be only doing 1 or 2 concurrent calls, why not experiment? -Original Message- From: Brian Swan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:29 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
Agree -- seems like a lot of latency. The one thing I will say, however, is that I had excellent results using 256 taps, until I tried an *inbound* call, where the echo was so bad, it seemed like I had put in there on purpose. :) Thanks! Brian On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric "ManxPower"

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Colin Anderson
calls, why not experiment? -Original Message- From: Brian Swan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:29 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo My wife is the customer, so she tends to give me funny looks

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Eric \"ManxPower\" Wieling
The number of taps the EC has to deal with is the delay on the PSTN side. I can't imagine echo is more than a few ms in modern TDM networks. This latency has NOTHING to do with VoIP latency, since the echo must be canceled BEFORE it gets to the VoIP side of things. Brian Swan wrote: My wife

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Friday 09 June 2006 13:15, Mike Fedyk wrote: > wondered why the software echo can in zaptel doesn't go up to 1024 taps > and causes major problems at 256 taps. The tdm400p cards don't have a The number of taps does indeed go up to 1024 now (in svn trunk). This equates to 128ms of echo tail.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
My wife is the customer, so she tends to give me funny looks when I ask her to sign waivers. ;) In all seriousness, though, I do recall reading that the 256 tap limit is "enforced" in software and that you can add/remove/whatever a few lines of code, and go up to 1024 (or greater I'd assume

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Steve Davies wrote: On 6/9/06, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Consider getting a Sangoma A200D (http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/p_a200-specs) with the optional hardware echo canceller module. It "just works" for echo cancellation; no tweaks required. It takes a while to f

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
Hi Steve, Thanks for the email. These are 3 pots lines terminated on a TDM4xxP. The remote ends are analog lines, and they all "sound great". The echo is experienced on the near end. Also, calls between phones inside the network all sound great as well, so I don't think it's our phones

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Davies
On 6/9/06, Brian Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, that's what I started out with, and outboud calls were the same as now, inbound calls had a huge amount of echo (until I turned on Aggressive). In my testing I actually didn't notice any difference between KB1 actually worked better then

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Swan
Actually, that's what I started out with, and outboud calls were the same as now, inbound calls had a huge amount of echo (until I turned on Aggressive). In my testing I actually didn't notice any difference between KB1 actually worked better then MG2 thanks for the advice, though!

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Davies
On 6/9/06, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Consider getting a Sangoma A200D (http://www.sangoma.com/datasheets/p_a200-specs) with the optional hardware echo canceller module. It "just works" for echo cancellation; no tweaks required. It takes a while to figure out how to inst

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Brian Swan wrote: I've spent the last week or so troubleshooting echo problems at my Wife's business, and I've been able to clear up about 99% of the echo, but there is still a little residual echo that I can't seem to "tweak out". The users describe it as "buzzing or crackling", but what it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Davies
On 6/8/06, Brian Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I've followed the numerous suggestions in the mailing list archives which is what has enabled me to get this far. After trying all the echo cancelers, and all the settings on each I settled on: - KB1 (with AGGRESSIVE_SUPRESSOR) - echocanc

[Asterisk-Users] Fun with Echo

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Swan
I've spent the last week or so troubleshooting echo problems at my Wife's business, and I've been able to clear up about 99% of the echo, but there is still a little residual echo that I can't seem to "tweak out". The users describe it as "buzzing or crackling", but what it sounds like to