First Impressions on VoIP
K and I signed up for AT&T CallVantage voice over IP at our place and last week the D-Link DVG-1120M telephone adapter (TA) arrived. I spent some of the weekend integrating the thing into my home network. I run a Linksys wireless access point / router as well and port forward 80 to a web server. After much tweaking, rewiring, reassigning IPs and trying to run the TA behind the router, I eventually settled on AT&T's "recommended" configuration of having the TA outside the router and running my router as a switch. This does almost everything I want. The TA supports port forwarding of course and I am able to browse my sites from outside the network, but strangely not from inside. My brother-in-law who is a network admin says that this is fairly typical of some devices. His router at home suffers from this same loopback problem. I never had it with the Linksys before. I decided just to create a couple v-dirs for the sites which I can browse internally and called it good enough. (If there's a setting allow me to browse internal sites by their domain names, I'd love to hear it).
Anyhow, we can make outgoing calls, but are still waiting for AT&T hook up incoming calls. Btw, the call quality seems just fine. The price is right too. My brother and mother-in-law are both seriously considering signing up.
Comments
- Anonymous
September 26, 2004
You can fake using the domain names by adding entries to your local hosts file (%SystemRoot%System32DriversEtchosts) mapping the domain name to the local IP address. eg:
192.168.1.1 www.mysite.com
192.168.1.1 www.mysite2.com - Anonymous
September 27, 2004
William, this works great. Thanks for the suggestion. - Anonymous
September 27, 2004
Was there a specific reason why you went with AT&T? Did you consider other providers? Vonage is another provider that comes into mind. - Anonymous
October 10, 2004
I agree with Eric. I've used Vonage for about 2.5 years and REALLY like it.
But I hope Callvantage works well for you Tosh.