ATA Suggestion

[PainCourt]

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to pick your brain on a reliable ATA. I am about to embark on setting up my mother-in-law with FPL. I'm looking for an ATA that gives little problem (as every problem will be met with me going over to her house and fixing). Just wanted your experience with your ATA ... bad or good. I currently have a Linksys PAP2 and its reliable, but still have its hick-ups.

Thanks everyone in advance.

[bridonca]

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to pick your brain on a reliable ATA. I am about to embark on setting up my mother-in-law with FPL. I'm looking for an ATA that gives little problem (as every problem will be met with me going over to her house and fixing). Just wanted your experience with your ATA ... bad or good. I currently have a Linksys PAP2 and its reliable, but still have its hick-ups.

Thanks everyone in advance.

I am more apt to believe you would be better served if you were looking for another router. A lot of consumer routers are not properly programmed to deal with SIP VOIP reliably, and usually the ATA is blamed for the router's shortcomings. You do not have to pay much for a good router. Some of the more expensive routers are actually awful at SIP VOIP. If your router can be flashed to a 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT, you got a good router.

If I was shopping for an ATA, I would look for a Grandstream device, because they are tend to be better at navigating SIP VOIP through a NAT router. The PAP2 is a good enough device, it is just that it is a bit stupid, and needs a good router to tell it what to do.

[PainCourt]

Thanks Bridonca ... any suggestion on a plain router then (no wireless needed)?

[Ice]

There's a thread dedicated to it! It hasn't been updated for a few months, but take a look...
http://forum.freephoneline.ca/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1318

[bridonca]

Thanks Bridonca ... any suggestion on a plain router then (no wireless needed)?

This looks to be a decent router that can be upgraded to DD-WRT. It is wireless, but that can be disabled. I know of no good wired consumer routers. http://www.directcanada.com/products/?s ... cture=ASUS

[PainCourt]

Bridonca ... I finally had a chance purchase a router (Linksys WRT54GS2) and learned DD-WRT ... that's why it took so long to reply to this post. I assume that you have a router that is running on DD-WRT. My question is, did you use MAC Priority in your QOS setting for you ATA? If not, could you suggest or provide what you used?

[bridonca]

Bridonca ... I finally had a chance purchase a router (Linksys WRT54GS2) and learned DD-WRT ... that's why it took so long to reply to this post. I assume that you have a router that is running on DD-WRT. My question is, did you use MAC Priority in your QOS setting for you ATA? If not, could you suggest or provide what you used?

Actually I did. It was probably the best way to do it. In the end, I ended up disabling QOS because it messed with my Youtube streams, and other annoying stuff, and it really did not do much to improve my VOIP. You have to do endless tweaks to get the best throughput, or best VOIP latency. I decided to fix the real problem, and that was my torrents. I have them downloading on a 3rd party VPS, and I then FTP the completed torrents. Much faster, and easier on the system overall.

This is a great article on QOS, It gives you an idea how it works, and what it can or cannot do. It is not DD-WRT specific, but it still applies. http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showt ... hp?t=60304