[VoIP] Motorola VT1005

[John Novack]

Doug Alderdice wrote:
> At 1/8/2007 10:31 AM -0500, John Novack wrote:
>   
>> I have the 1005V for my Vonage service, and it is similar to the Digium 
>> with Max's fix.  The T1 route with Adtran 750's seem more forgiving I have 
>> not done any lengthy testing on either, but Kirt seems quite happy with 
>> his T1 and pulse
>>     
>
> The problem with T1, as I understand it, is the cost.  Channel banks are 
> cheap, the cards to drive them are not.  I couldn't believe the prices I 
> was seeing on the voip-supply.com web site for the T1 cards.  I am not 
> particularly interested in shelling out several hundred bucks for a card to 
> drive T1 bank, no matter how cheaply the bank comes.  
Understood
The cheapest new single port T1 card found by John S, the Sangoma, is 
$485, add $100 for an adtran 750 and that comes in, or or less at 25 
bucks per port, Close to the V1005  PER PORT.
With  Vina T1 24 port FXS banks available for even less, eBay price 
usually 50 bucks or less. No password available, but they work as long 
as you don't have to change anything
> Fifty bucks for an 
> ATA that does rotary reasonably OK is more to my liking.  Or just staying 
> with my SmarT-1/Sipura kludge.  I need only a couple of ports anyway.
>
>   
NEED? What does that have to do with this ???

JN