I can really only speak to questions 2; The other 2 pins in your cable are for your second phone line - if you have one that is. You should be able to plug in a 4 wire cable into any socket in the house and get access to Both lines.
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:02 +0100, Dunc wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just found this thread, which is amazing as I'm on my first go with > asterisk and so far I've been pulling my hair out for the last week :-) > > I have 2 questions which were raised while this fault was being debugged. > > > 1) > > Gordon says:- > > > Is this a place where you get a polarity reversal event on call startup? > > In the UK we do. (Well on BT lines - I've a funny feeling some > Telewest/NTL lines use Bell signaling). > > On an incoming call we get: > > Polarity reversal. > FSK Caller ID burst > Ringing > > > > > Well I've got an NTL phone line, can anyone tell me what to use for that? > > > > 2) > > Do I still need the same 2pin cable? Because I've been to Maplins too > and bought one that I thought was right, but this one is a 4pin too. > > Can anyone tell me which pins on their 2pin cable are connected at each > end? I'll bodge my cable until it works and then get a proper one once > I'm sure. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Dunc > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Mark Phillips, G7LTT/NI2O Randolph, NJ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users