X100P.com FXO

X100P.com FXO

The main IC on the card has been sanded down to remove the original chip markings. This always makes me feel there is something dishonest going on here. Maybe it's really a $10 clone which has been modified to return the authentic PCI ID.

This card echos on my Cox digital phone line. Sufficient for testing Asterisk@Home 1.5, but not for production use.

Of course, it could be argued that I must make adjustments to cancel the echo. I would argue that cheap phones and analog modems handle any line imbalance problems without my having to adjust them. Either Asterisk@Home 1.5 is still in its infancy or this hardware is insufficent for this purpose.

Now that I have tested this card, I would rather have bid on the cheapest OEM card I could find ($9.99 + $6.99 s/h) rather than this "Authentic X100P" ($24.00 + $8.00 s/h).

Items received from this auction:

• One FXO PCI card in anti-static bag in RTL8139D Ethernet NIC box.
• One three foot one-line phone cable.

Links

• eBay item 5803438540 from x100p. I left my feedback on Sep-19-05 11:56.
• X100P.com FXO
• 3.2.1.1 Digium Wildcard X100P OEM FXO PCI Card
• DigitNetworks
• VoIP User Forum Thread
• Asterisk
• AsteriskNOW
• Trixbox formerly Asterisk@Home.

Other options

• OpenVox A400P01 (A400P + 1 port FXO Bundle) is PCI card with one FXO module for USD95.95 + USD8.05 Shipping/Handling from pbxeq.com.
• Digium Wildcard TDM01B is a four module PCI card with one FXO module for about USD150.00.
• Linksys SPA3102 is one FXO, one FXS, and an Ethernet port for USD73.61 + USD5.02 S/H + USD6.08 California tax = USD84.71 from BestBuyForBusiness. This may not work for my purposes as it seems the VoIP or Internet Telephone Service Provider has full configuration capability of the device instead of me.

  It reminds me of how cable modems work. The cable company can configure the cable modem to disable SNMP even if the cable modem was capable of it before they "provisioned" (configured) it.