Is it just me or are we having problems?

[TSellers]

Came home from work just now and tried to return some calls. Apparently the party I was calling got the incoming call, but on my end I could not hear a thing. They then tried to call me, and after a couple of rings they were dropped.

So I called my work cell phne and sure enough, the cell phone rang, but my FPL line did not give a ringtone nor could I hear anything from my cell phone. Last night I changed some settings recommended in another thread in the forum here, I wonder if that could be the cause, or is something going on with the network right now?

[bridonca]

I am going to say it is you, or more specifically, your NAT. I am not sure if freephoneline did any tweaking to cause these recent problems, but when I have the ports properly forwarded, as on my home network, the flakiness is not there. When I have it set up on the NAT nightmare at work, and strange things are afoot.

[TSellers]

You're right. I went back and reverted the 4 NAT Handle VIA settings back to where they were ('no'), and I got my dial tone back again. I reset the NAT Keep ALive to 20 as well for good measure.

I did however leave the NAT Keep Alive Msg: to $PING and the other mapping enable to yes.

Thanks for that, you're diagnoses was spot on!