On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Derek Neighbors wrote:

You should be able to pick up a test FXO/FXS card for about $129. I just don't see the winmodem as being a good way to "test" Asterisk. We do a lot of Asterisk installations. If you ask here whether Asterisk can do what you want, I am sure we could give you a valid answer.

Buying a winmodem would just be throwing away money. Analog lines with quality cards have fairly significant echo issues that need fine tuning as it is. I suspect a winmodem would be nothing but frustration. Just my two cents.

I've got a decent digium card and IP phones on the way now, and I found a website that's willing to give you an incoming number up in Iowa[1] if you're into that sort of thing, so I had enough to show the folks what was what as far as replacing their fogey PBX system with a Linux box running asterisk.

Now I'd like to get one of the them winmodem cards (or an honest to goodness X100P card) for home playing with. A 129$ FXO/FXS card is about 129$ over my home telephony budget, so I'd be willing to spend a little more time dealing with echo cancellation there.