i have a RJ11 port on my laptop, does this mean it is a PSTN Card??
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Hi all
i have a RJ11 port on my laptop, does this mean it is a PSTN Card, or what does exactly mean ???
can i consider it to be an FXO port, and connect my IP PBX to the PSTN network ?? -
If by "PSTN Card" you mean a "Modem", then yes, 99.999% chance that is a standard modem.
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You have a standard modem in your laptop.
No it cannot be realistically used as an FXO. There is nothing in any operating system that I have ever seen designed to handle it as such.
You could in theory, install FreePBX directly on your lapotp and then it should see the hardware as available. But at this point the laptop is useless for anything else.
Just buy a SPA
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i want to install freepbx on this laptop and connect it to the PSTN network by plugging the telephone line on this port, what do think about this experiment ??? lol
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i don't know whether the freePBX will recognize it as a PSTN card or not??
i fear that after finishing the setup, the freePBX will not recognize it ?? -
because i look for that PSTN gateway linksys SPA 3102 here in qatar and didn't find it, people told me that is illegal to sell such voip devices !
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That telephone symbol is the universal symbol for "modem."
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i don't know whether the freePBX will recognize it as a PSTN card or not??
There is no term called "PSTN card." This is a modem, not an FXO. Don't use the term PSTN card, use the technical terms as PSTN card would refer to many things, both things that would work and things that would not.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i fear that after finishing the setup, the freePBX will not recognize it ??
As you should, there is effectively no chance that this would work. Normally those aren't even real modems but WinModems which, for all intents and purposes, don't exist (it's like FakeRAID... looks like a modem, acts like a modem but only when a driver is faking it to you.)
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@IT-ADMIN said:
because i look for that PSTN gateway linksys SPA 3102 here in qatar and didn't find it, people told me that is illegal to sell such voip devices !
That would, in turn, make what you are trying to do illegal, you would assume as all you are trying to do is make your own "illegal device."
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so sad, i had only a learning intention, that is all
any way thank you very much -
@IT-ADMIN said:
so sad, i had only a learning intention, that is all
any way thank you very muchYou might be fine legally, maybe they just can't sell them. But the modem in the laptop will not talk to FreePBX. They just don't work that way, I'm afraid.
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@scottalanmiller said:
But the modem in the laptop will not talk to FreePBX. They just don't work that way, I'm afraid.
I would say the modem in the laptop, almost certainly will not talk to FreePBX, simply because I have never tried to use a modem in that way. It is always possible, but extremely unlikely.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
because i look for that PSTN gateway linksys SPA 3102 here in qatar and didn't find it, people told me that is illegal to sell such voip devices !
It may be illegal to sell them, but that does not make it illegal to purchase. Obviously, it may also be illegal to purchase.
Google got me to dutycalculator.com which said:
Importation of these articles may be subject to licence requirements (No Objection Certificate). Please contact Telecom Regulatory Authority for more information. [Some Probability]
That page linked me to here, which I cannot read.
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i will import it from my home country (morocco), i checked and i found it there, when i go to my vacation i will bring one.
thank you guys and i'm sorry for my delay to reply due to time difference (6 hours btw qatar and New York)
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@JaredBusch said:
I would say the modem in the laptop, almost certainly will not talk to FreePBX, simply because I have never tried to use a modem in that way. It is always possible, but extremely unlikely.
The biggest issue is that since around 2003 or so, those devices are no longer actually modems (almost always) and are just RJ11 adapters and expect the full modem functionality to be handled in a driver, and those drivers are Windows only, hence the term WinModem. After a certain point nearly all of those devices were handled in software only leaving Linux (and FreePBX) without good access to them.
In theory a full FXO card could be done this way in software though.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i will import it from my home country (morocco), i checked and i found it there, when i go to my vacation i will bring one.
thank you guys and i'm sorry for my delay to reply due to time difference (6 hours btw qatar and New York)
What city are you from? I was in Fes recently.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What city are you from? I was in Fes recently.
ooh you are welcome, i'm from Safi, it is far away from Fes (about 500 KM )
Fes is the cultural city of morocco -
We had a nice time there. We hope to visit Casablanca on our next trip there.
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hhhh you know much about morocco, but i want to inform you that casablanca is the economic capital of morocco, there are other touristic cities like marakech or agadir or north of morocco near spain
have a great day
