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Question regarding ports on an ATA

  • 09-10-2006 9:00pm
    #1
    cubix
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    Have been looking at different ATA's like the HandyTones and Spirua's. Some have FXS ports which seem to be for plugging in your standard telephone and using it over the net. Some also have FXO ports and I cant get my head around what these are for,anyone able to tell me in plain english

    Thanks


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  • #2
    gerryo
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    cubix wrote:
    Have been looking at different ATA's like the HandyTones and Spirua's. Some have FXS ports which seem to be for plugging in your standard telephone and using it over the net. Some also have FXO ports and I cant get my head around what these are for,anyone able to tell me in plain english Thanks

    Connect the FXS port to a standard telephone.
    Connect the FXO port to a standard telephone line.

    If the adapter allows it, you can make/receive calls on either the standard telephone line or using broadband & VoIP.

    Also, some ATA's auto connect the phone (on the FXS port) to the phone line (on the FXO port) when power is lost.


  • #3
    cubix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭cubix


    Thanks;)
    Just to add can you setup the software on an ATA that has both a FXS+FXO port to automaticaly use the phone line to make local/national/Uk calls and then if you make a mobile/international call to route it through your voip provider or would you need to prefix the call with something so the ATA knows which port to use

    Cubix


  • #4
    bhickey
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    cubix wrote:
    Just to add can you setup the software on an ATA that has both a FXS+FXO port to automaticaly use the phone line to make local/national/Uk calls and then if you make a mobile/international call to route it through your voip provider or would you need to prefix the call with something so the ATA knows which port to use

    Generally (at least on the Grandstreams anyway) calls will use VoIP by default but you can prefix the number with a code (e.g. '*') to send the calls out over the analogue line.


  • #5
    watty
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    It's handy given lack of easy geoporting for those on a DSL, the existing number dials in and works on same handset.

    I think too a bunch of Dect handsets and DECT base plugged into the ATA FXS (POTS port to us oldies) is safer solution than trying to get WiFi based SIP phones to work.

    If you don't have DSL based broadband and get rid of analogue line or are on an LLU service with no analogue service then the FXO port is no use.


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