VoIP (Teksavvy's TekTalk)

[William Park]

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:26:38AM -0500, William Park wrote:
>>  Sent again, because first one got lost...
>> 
>>  Today, I switched from Rogers Home Phone to Teksavvy TekTalk.  It went
>>  well and will pay for itself in 3 months.  Instruction says
>>     
>>      cable modem --> router --> ATA
>>                        |         |
>>                    computers   phone
>> 
>>  But, I put ATA in front of router,
>>     
>>      cable modem --> ATA --> router
>>                       |        |
>>                     phone   computers
> 
> Most likely you are only allowed one IP on your cable modem, so unless
> the ATA does NAT and acts as a router for your router, that is not a
> good idea.

Yes, it's Linksys SPA-2102.  After looking at the web configuration
pages of both ATA and Router, though, putting ATA behind the router
may be better option.  Let ATA handle phone, and let router handle
routing and QoS.

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