Karl S. Katzke wrote:
Ooh. Jenny, your problem might be the motherboard. (I should know, I run that same motherboard at home as my gaming machine.) It's a piece of crud.
Oh, great. ;-) For next time, does anyone have recommendations for a particular motherboard or a particular type of motherboard?
I wouldn't worry about the AGP running on there, but do make sure that X-windows isn't running on the box. If the consultant you hired installed a graphical environment, please give me his name and address so that I can drive over and kick him next time I'm visiting my sister.
X isn't installed, so you can spend more time w/ your sister. ;-)
Otherwise, yeah, what you've got is overkill. The Sempron and half a gig of RAM would be more than enough for you, and RAID is nice but you could probably have gotten away with software RAID or using the onboard softraid. I'm not even running RAID.
This is for an office -- I figured that running hardware RAID would be the most likely to avoid downtime if a hard drive failed. How do most people handle this?
My clicking went away after I rewired my PSTN boxes. The contractor that wired them put them in 2-up ganged boxes, (2 jacks in each box, 2 lines running into each box) and that caused far too much interference. Replacing the wiring from the punchdown to the boxes and then the boxes themselves not only eliminated the clicking, it cancelled a good half of the echo. I still have some echo and I just had a call drop out unexpectedly with 'congestion'... gotta figure out how to fix that.
The phone lines are wired to a patch panel (RJ45). Plugging in cheap analog phones work great -- they get very clear sound.
More on sound quality -- when making calls from one extension to another, the volume level is much, much better. However, we still get echo. So this might not be a problem with the Digium cards (or not only with the Digium cards). The clicking noises are intermittent -- they don't happen all the time. So the next thing to try might be to get better phones.
Currently, we're using Sipura SPA-841 phones. I hear the Polycoms are much better. Does that apply to all Polycoms? For example, what's the sound diff. between a Sipura SPA-841, a Polycom SoundPoint IP 301, and a Polycom SoundPoint IP 501?
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