[General] VoIP For Home Usage

Majed B. majedb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 01:06:40 +03 2009


I was sick of all that hassle so I ditched it and gonna go back to
1.4. I might try it again in a few months with a newer release of
Dahdi.

Wouldn't giving the card more power than it needs, fry it??!

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>
> Some cards need 4-wires to be powered, by joining 4-wires (2-wires on each
> end) from the wall socket you'll end up powering the 4 lines in the RJ11
> socket in your Vox card, i remember this being done in a forum and worked
> for some cards. its like flipping a coin but worth trying if all you need to
> do just change your wiring.
>
> So the "kw" setting did not work with Asterisk 1.6 i take it?
>
>
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 10:34 PM
>
> 2 gray cables mean you get 4 lines. (1 line for every 2 wires).
>
> If you connect an analog phone, do you get a tone? If not, you need to
> reverse the wires, otherwise your setup is fine.
>
> I'm not sure about what Faisal suggested though for the 4 wires. All
> the RJ11 cables I have have 4 pins, but only 2 wires are connected,
> and it did work before with Asterisk 1.4.
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>> Interesting, I checked the wall socket, there are 2 gray wires each of
>> them having 4 colored wires, and only 2 colored wires of each gray wires
>> are connected to the socket (2 red wires to the right, 2 blue wires to
>> the left) 4 other wires are not connected. 2 in each gray wires. I'm not
>> familiar with wiring. Now do I have to connect the others? IIRC the
>> others are not used/utilized.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
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