Voice-Over-IP About the Linksys "Vonage" 2-port Phone Adapter

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About the Linksys "Vonage" 2-port Phone Adapter Ramon F Herrera 07-03-05
Posted by Ramon F Herrera on July 3, 2005, 5:38 pm
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I just purchased the Linksys Phone Adapter with 2 Ports for
Voice-over-IP.

I intend to try it with the Vonage service, but I'd like to use it with
my own Asterisk PBX as well.

I assume that this is not a Vonage-specific product.

Has anybody out there tried it?  Any comments?

The manual is geared towards very naive users, and it doesn't tell me
how to access the phone from a SIP server (username@host.domain?), how
to register, etc.

Thanks for any tips and pointers...

-Ramon F Herrera

ps: the Model is PAP2.


Posted by John R. Levine on July 3, 2005, 9:02 pm
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You assume wrong.  The box you bought is almost always sold at an
artifically low price, to be made up from the monthly fee you pay
whatever VoIP provider subsidized it, usually Vonage.  It's similar to
the $30 cell phone that would cost $200 without a contract for a
year's cell service.

If you want to use Vonage for outside calls from Asterisk, I gather
that it's not hard to reverse engineer the second line softphone that
Vonage offers, but their hardware is rarely cracked.

R's,
John


Posted by Sekhar on July 4, 2005, 8:38 am
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Wow! I got it hardware reset :D

PAP2 is very similar to SPA 2000.

Sekhar.


Posted by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht on July 5, 2005, 2:25 am
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Curious minds want to know, How did you get it to reset?  is there a
clear-all jumper on the motherboard?

My first guess would have been that one needed to make a j-tag adaptor
and reset the predefined settings that way.  I'll bet most items these
days can be reset / programmed this way.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

Posted by John S. on July 5, 2005, 2:39 am
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"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"


Usually with a reset button, accessed with a pencil tip or something. OR, if
you do have the IP address and the pasword, there usually is a factory reset
choice on the menus.



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