On Monday 13 February 2006 17:13, Mark Palser wrote: > Does anybody have any recommendations/favourites? I have tried 3 different > routers and experienced 3 different problems. D-Link worked fine for SIP, > but I could not get IAX to register. Linksys worked fine for half a day, > then just stopped, reset, factory reset, nothing. Finally Netgear, both SIP > and IAX would register but sound was one way, not only for SIP but also for > IAX. Right now I'm using the D-Link and will have to do without my IAX > clients, D-Link tech support suggested I RMA the router, that helps me out > a whole lot.........................
I run dd-wrt on the Linksys series of routers without issue, although I am going to be (very shortly) putting asterisk directly on one of these in order to facilitate a multi-office phone system (three locations, about 20 phones total) -- Polycoms (the phones, or maybe the company) seems to have their heads up their arses when it comes to SIP and NAT, so I'm going to either use the WRT-* box to convert SIP to trunked IAX2 or just pass SIP directly in order to get multiple extensions working behind NAT. Be *VERY* careful about Linksys these days; the current WRT54G/GS series routers do *NOT* support OpenWRT. Check the OpenWRT site, they have a very good page on which units are supported, which aren't and which are Works-In-Progress. I was lucky; I found on open-box Rev3 WRT54G at Best Buy in Kitchener; Every other unit was a Rev5 which was a cost-reduced version and does not have enough RAM or Flash to handle OpenWRT. The nice thing is that their display computers are all internet-connected, so you just head on over to the OpenWRT site from there, politely inform the helpful staff that you're just doing some research on a product you are considering buying from their establishment, and compare model/serial #s. :-) -A.
