Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Adamson
I'd suggest turning off echotraining on the FXS altogether, and perhaps even killing the echocanceller on FXS entirely. (you won't be getting significant echo from the FXS, and the FXO should be handling it anyway) -- echocancelwhenbridged might be an interesting thing to play

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Fredrickson
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:52:20PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:59, Steve Underwood wrote: I don't follow why knowing that impedance mismatch is the problem has stopped you making fxotune fix it. :-\ Where you the one who asked me how to make fxotune work well

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Ric Moseley
Are changes to the zapata.conf file read on the fly or do you have to restart the asterisk process? On 8/29/05, Matt Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:52:20PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:59, Steve Underwood wrote: I don't follow

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Soner Tari
Are changes to the zapata.conf file read on the fly or do you have to restart the asterisk process? I've never seen any .conf changes activated without reload. On CLI, try this: reload chan_zap.so ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Adamson
I'm 98% sure the zapata.conf changes require a full stop/start of asterisk. Are changes to the zapata.conf file read on the fly or do you have to restart the asterisk process? On 8/29/05, Matt Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:52:20PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Fredrickson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:24:01PM -0500, Ric Moseley wrote: Are changes to the zapata.conf file read on the fly or do you have to restart the asterisk process? It doesn't make any changes to the zapata.conf file. It has it's own config file that you have to set it up to load from before you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Samy Kamkar
Correct -- any changes to just zapata.conf do require a full restart of asterisk (but do not require reloading of zaptel modules) Rich Adamson wrote: I'm 98% sure the zapata.conf changes require a full stop/start of asterisk. Are changes to the zapata.conf file read on the fly or do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-29 Thread Soner Tari
] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:11 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared Correct -- any changes to just zapata.conf do require a full restart of asterisk (but do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Soner Tari
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Rich Adamson
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:21, Rich Adamson wrote: Might try playing around with the canceler parameters on the fxs channel. Since the analog fxs phone is always very close physically, maybe play with the echotraining (echocancel=32, and other echo parameters) to see what impact those might

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Rich Adamson
Might try playing around with the canceler parameters on the fxs channel. Since the analog fxs phone is always very close physically, maybe play with the echotraining (echocancel=32, and other echo parameters) to see what impact those might have. (In theory, using something like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Rich Adamson
Then, on a commercial turn up (back when I did these, it was Western Union and/or MCI), the tech at the other end would again dialup the milliwatt, report the value measured over the loop and the pad(s) re-adjusted to match the values for the loss in a document provided. That is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Matt Fredrickson wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:00:54PM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: Relative to the fxotune app, it would appear the app is specific to the v2.4 kernels (/dev/zap*), which the v2.6 kernels don't use It should with 2.4 and 2.6. 2.6 kernels with properly configured

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:59, Steve Underwood wrote: I don't follow why knowing that impedance mismatch is the problem has stopped you making fxotune fix it. :-\ Where you the one who asked me how to make fxotune work well on IRC? Someone asked a while ago, and said they were working on a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Soner Tari
I'd suggest turning off echotraining on the FXS altogether, and perhaps even killing the echocanceller on FXS entirely. (you won't be getting significant echo from the FXS, and the FXO should be handling it anyway) -- echocancelwhenbridged might be an interesting thing to play with as well.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Edwards
Since this is a lively topic, I'll ask here... How can I measure the interval between the original and the echo? On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Soner Tari wrote: I'd suggest turning off echotraining on the FXS altogether, and perhaps even killing the echocanceller on FXS entirely. (you won't be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-28 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:55, Soner Tari wrote: Andrew sez: echocancel=64 echocancelwhenbridged=yes echotraining=800 channel = 1-3 echocancelwhenbridged=no channel = 4-7 I am sure you know that in zapata.conf parameter settings are in effect until specifically overridden later

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Adamson
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-27 Thread Soner Tari
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the coarse-training

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Adamson
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-27 Thread Soner Tari
I have splitters on 2 of the 3 PSTN lines. As I mentioned in my previous posts, the echo performance of my system is not so bad, but does anybody know if ADSL splitters may cause echo? After all, splitters have some circuitry, and my wild guess is that that may influence the characteristics of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Adamson
I have splitters on 2 of the 3 PSTN lines. As I mentioned in my previous posts, the echo performance of my system is not so bad, but does anybody know if ADSL splitters may cause echo? After all, splitters have some circuitry, and my wild guess is that that may influence the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
This is an interesting document about VoIP and Echo. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/intsolns/voipsol/ea_isd.htm ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Soner Tari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread canuck15
: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:20 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared I'll do my comments in line and hope I don't offend. Rich Adamson wrote: First off, thank you *very* much

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Adamson
I'm not the OP, but I had a similar problem, in my case fxotune ran successfully for just one out of 3x FXO modules, but the coefficients were all 0's. My kernel is 2.6.11 on CentOS 4.1. So I'm curious if 2.6 kernel (instead of 2.4) has any input in this whole echo issue, not just

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Adamson
. -Original Message- From: Rich Adamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:20 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared I'll do my comments in line and hope I don't

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread canuck15
to. -Original Message- From: Rich Adamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 1:38 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared Bottom line... ztmonitor can be used to 'assist

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Matt Fredrickson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:00:54PM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: Relative to the fxotune app, it would appear the app is specific to the v2.4 kernels (/dev/zap*), which the v2.6 kernels don't use It should with 2.4 and 2.6. 2.6 kernels with properly configured udev rules should create the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Rich Adamson wrote: clippage here The -2 to -3 db is not correct for analog circuits. Copper wires have a loss that is directly related to the length of the cable. (I don't have the chart right here, but a 7,000 foot cable pair will have lets say 6db of loss and a 3,000 foot pair will be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Adamson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:00:54PM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: Relative to the fxotune app, it would appear the app is specific to the v2.4 kernels (/dev/zap*), which the v2.6 kernels don't use It should with 2.4 and 2.6. 2.6 kernels with properly configured udev rules should create the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
Bruce Ferrell wrote: Then, on a commercial turn up (back when I did these, it was Western Union and/or MCI), the tech at the other end would again dialup the milliwatt, report the value measured over the loop and the pad(s) re-adjusted to match the values for the loss in a document provided.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Friday 26 August 2005 18:14, Rich Adamson wrote: As mentioned in my last private email, all four analog pstn lines attached to my TDM04b have been tested with a professional transmission test set and all four are in excellent condition. Fxotune did not generate any noticable differences to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Soner Tari
Is it practical to 'assume' that in your case mentioned above that #1 is not going to occur again (since I assume when you say 'line' you are referring to an outside pstn line), and, #2 is in a mode of fine-tuning the training when in fact you'd really like it to start the coarse-training from

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote: Bruce Ferrell wrote: Then, on a commercial turn up (back when I did these, it was Western Union and/or MCI), the tech at the other end would again dialup the milliwatt, report the value measured over the loop and the pad(s) re-adjusted to match the values

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Adamson
The -2 to -3 db is not correct for analog circuits. Copper wires have a loss that is directly related to the length of the cable. (I don't have the chart right here, but a 7,000 foot cable pair will have lets say 6db of loss and a 3,000 foot pair will be a 3db loss. You can't engineer

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Adamson
On Friday 26 August 2005 18:14, Rich Adamson wrote: As mentioned in my last private email, all four analog pstn lines attached to my TDM04b have been tested with a professional transmission test set and all four are in excellent condition. Fxotune did not generate any noticable

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Lars Dybdahl
You did not specify anything about your network. If your network has a big latency, echo cancellers can get into trouble. For instance, I have echo problems just using wireless POTS phones on my sipura 2100 sip adapter/router on an otherwise unused 8Mbps ADSL internet connection at home. Lars

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Adamson
First off, thank you *very* much for this unbelievably informative post! I've got it saved away now along with Kris Boutilier's adjusting rxgain/txgain post. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: At the point where the phone line get's to your demarc the is supposed

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Thursday 25 August 2005 08:00, Rich Adamson wrote: If you mean placing a transmission test set at the customer's demarc (at the customer's site), the -2 to -3 db is still incorrect for analog pstn circuits. That level _will be_ the 0db generator tone minus the cable loss from the CO to the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Adamson
On Thursday 25 August 2005 08:00, Rich Adamson wrote: If you mean placing a transmission test set at the customer's demarc (at the customer's site), the -2 to -3 db is still incorrect for analog pstn circuits. That level _will be_ the 0db generator tone minus the cable loss from the CO to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Adamson
Ok, fxotune is a work in progress so to speak. I fixed something in it about a week ago that may help it adjust to the line better (whereas before I'm not sure that it was at all). Try the latest CVS-HEAD version of fxotune as your first step. (oh, after you use fxotune you should turn off

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Derek Whitten
what kernel are you running ? On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:01, Rich Adamson wrote: Ok, fxotune is a work in progress so to speak. I fixed something in it about a week ago that may help it adjust to the line better (whereas before I'm not sure that it was at all). Try the latest

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Bruce Ferrell
I'll do my comments in line and hope I don't offend. Rich Adamson wrote: First off, thank you *very* much for this unbelievably informative post! I've got it saved away now along with Kris Boutilier's adjusting rxgain/txgain post. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: At

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Bruce Ferrell
and just for REALLY bad form, responding to my own post with a postscript: I had to have a lot of pictures drawn for me when I was learning this 20 years ago :) Bruce Ferrell wrote: I'll do my comments in line and hope I don't offend. Rich Adamson wrote: First off, thank you *very* much

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Adamson
I'm running 2.6.9-1.667 (with udev as mentioned in the original post). what kernel are you running ? On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:01, Rich Adamson wrote: Ok, fxotune is a work in progress so to speak. I fixed something in it about a week ago that may help it adjust to the line better

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Adamson
I'll do my comments in line and hope I don't offend. Rich Adamson wrote: First off, thank you *very* much for this unbelievably informative post! I've got it saved away now along with Kris Boutilier's adjusting rxgain/txgain post. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:14, Bruce Ferrell

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:37, canuck15 wrote: As others have recommended, I created a test system with the proposed production parts. I bought a couple different SIP phones to try and a Digium TDM01B card. I am using an older PIII 1Ghz system with 815chipset (PCI Rev2.2) with 256MB for

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Wiley Siler
Just because you cannot get it to work does not mean that IT does not work. Just using the right motherboard is not enough. Did you check for IRQ problems? You don't mention whether you have checked for this. Look for a thread called "Asterisk-Users Small office setupusing analog lines w

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Bruce Ferrell
OK comments on echo and levels. I made a living doing this in a central office so take it for what it's worth. Milliwatt is 0dbm0 or 0dbm at a 0 reference point. At the point where the phone line get's to your demarc the is supposed to ba a -2 to 3db reference point, sometimes called a -2

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
Has anyone tried this approach? 1) Install * on a PC(probably don't need much horsepower) 2) Setup a sipura spa-2000 ata so that it is not on the same lan you are troubleshooting. One way to do this is with a crossover cable to the above PC. Restrict both ata ports to ulaw only. 3) Port 1

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Michael D Schelin
The Asterisk Software is not the problem. I'm thinking and I could be wrong that your having a total line balance mismatch with the card your using. Check the line impedance and the card's. Most people using Asterisk don't have that much echo. Anyway It would be nice to see a manual Hybrid

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Alfredo J. Fabretti
Try to use another land line and test the echo problem again. Do you have any DSL service running in that line? Quoting canuck15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I came into this with my eyes wide open. I have read ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING there is to be found on the net about avoiding echo problems BEFORE

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread canuck15
From: Wiley Siler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:00 PMTo: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial DiscussionSubject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared Just because you cannot get it to work does not mean that IT doe

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread canuck15
: Alfredo J. Fabretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:18 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared Try to use another land line and test the echo problem again. Do you have any DSL service running

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Alfredo J. Fabretti
- From: Alfredo J. Fabretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:18 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared Try to use another land line and test the echo problem again. Do you have any DSL service

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
First off, thank you *very* much for this unbelievably informative post! I've got it saved away now along with Kris Boutilier's adjusting rxgain/txgain post. On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: At the point where the phone line get's to your demarc the is supposed to ba a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread Matt Fredrickson
Ok, fxotune is a work in progress so to speak. I fixed something in it about a week ago that may help it adjust to the line better (whereas before I'm not sure that it was at all). Try the latest CVS-HEAD version of fxotune as your first step. (oh, after you use fxotune you should turn off your

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared

2005-08-24 Thread canuck15
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:18 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Will Echo problems EVER be solved, I'm scared dude it's gotta be something with your system. Im using same setup at home with a TDM22