gavpk

Hi,
almost every day my voip stops working? it happened with engin and now with gotalk, im using a spa-2000 ata, i have to unplug then plug back in to the power to make it work again, not sure if its the ata im using or what? has anyone else had these sort of problems? is there any tweaks i can do to get this to be reliable?

cheers

Gav

Sanity

I would say it would be the ATA. I am with Engin and have never had any dropouts ( though I have had 3 Netgear all in one units fail in 18 months ). I did have an ATA that I got through iinet that had all sorts of problems and eventually caught on fire in my bedroom.

If you dont have a spare ATA you could buy one from a Dick Smith store. They have a 14 day satisfaction warranty. You can take it back and say you dont like it and get your money back if thats not the problem

best4less

Are you using the low G.279A codec it made such a difference with my engine
and QOS just to keep it happy

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gavpk

Im using the G.729 first, then G.723, G.711A and have qos in place


shit!! that is a troublesome device.


i did buy a D-Link DPH-C160S Cordless DECT VoIP Phone from BST, but couldnt get it working with gotalk, any recommendations on an ata from dick smith? might have a look there on the weekend

gavpk

hey B4L and sanity, are you guys using the SPA 3102 (Engin Voice Box 3102)?

fromaron

gavk, if you don't need two phone lines at the same time and don't need PSTN line combined with voip one on the same phone, look at the Minitar MVA11A unit. It's very nice little box and has pretty good local support. Firmwares are regular and the price is pretty good as well. The box has major VSPs preconfigured, so it's like plug and play device.
The main benefit is it is much easier to configure up to three accounts at the same time, compare to Linksys adapters.

Sanity

Yep , but I have only had it for a week. Previous to that I had Netgear DG834GV with built in voip.

gavpk

thanks mates, i will look into that, i dont need PSTN line combined bcause i have a little switch that switches between voip and normal landline, by pressing #0 on the phone it allows you to change the out going lines

gavpk

so does your normal landline plug into this aswell?
if so, can you choose which out going line you want from the handset?

Sanity

No I cant choose the outgoing line as far as I know but I have only had this one for a week and havent really had much to do with it other than getting it going.

z80

engin doesn't support that any more.

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gavpk

I got a 3102 from dick smith, but didnt take my own advice and forgot
to disable provisioning before i hooked it up to my router, so once
connected to the internet it pulled one of engins config files and
locked itself, i had to set my old account up with them to get it
unlocked without paying the $35, anyway its working well so far,
also i found that pressing # on your phone will toggle between voip
and your normal landline outgoing.

Are you talking about two voip lines? i noticed on my old spa-200 ata
that it has 2 lines, the 3102 only has one.

gavpk

i found this Engin Linksys 3102 Voice Box with $69 call Credit
you get a 3102 ata for 25 bucks delivered plus $69 credit with engin. cheap enough for anyone thinking about setting up voip

fromaron

They sell it for awhile now.
Keep in mind, there is a catch. The box is most likely locked to engin. You won't be able to re-configure it. To unlock it engin charges fees these days.

gavpk

you dont get charged if you have an account, they just put you on a BYO plan, then you can cancel you account a few days later with no charges

fromaron

I've heard some people couldn't do the trick, but good luck with engin CS.