asterisk users - May 2003 - ATA186 through NAT, over Dialup, success story

Hi,

I'm away at a conference in Amsterdam.  My home is in Cambridge in the
UK.  On a whim, I tossed an ATA186 and a phone into my bags before
leaving home.

I was able to plug my ATA186 into a LAN here at the conference and
was connected to my home Asterisk in a few seconds.  Total time from
unzipping my bag to talking to home no more than 15 seconds.

OK, so the kit could be more portable, but that is coming !

Also, in the hotel there is dialup only.  But, I dialled up with my
Apple ibook, enabled connection sharing, connected the ATA186 to the
ibook Ethernet port and similarly had dialtone in a few seconds.

I made calls over that - using a low-bandwidth codec - and it worked
great too.  That was also a NATted connection.

I knew it would work in theory, but the ease in practice was amazing.

Regards,
Steve

At 16:50 20-5-2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm away at a conference in Amsterdam.  My home is in Cambridge in the
>UK.  On a whim, I tossed an ATA186 and a phone into my bags before
>leaving home.
>
>I was able to plug my ATA186 into a LAN here at the conference and
>was connected to my home Asterisk in a few seconds.  Total time from
>unzipping my bag to talking to home no more than 15 seconds.
>
>OK, so the kit could be more portable, but that is coming !
>
>Also, in the hotel there is dialup only.  But, I dialled up with my
>Apple ibook, enabled connection sharing, connected the ATA186 to the
>ibook Ethernet port and similarly had dialtone in a few seconds.
>
>I made calls over that - using a low-bandwidth codec - and it worked
>great too.  That was also a NATted connection.
>
>I knew it would work in theory, but the ease in practice was amazing.
This is a great proof of concept and quite contradictory to my own 
experience. Could you elaborate a bit more, i.e. by specifying your 
sip.conf and the ATA firmware, revision, and configuration ? I'd love to 
compare notes..

Florian