Fry's Electronics has a new Linksys 2 line ATA box for sale for $59.99 retail. They have a version with a router for $89.99. We picked the non-router version up and it seems to be a rebadged Sipura SPA-2000. The box has a Vonage service package inside as well, but it does work with other services. The box also has a "User Guide" meant for end-users that is very well written [no Engrish] and explains the calling features and install well. I imagine that the wholesale price of these ATAs will be very attractive if they are selling for $60 retail!
Please explain how you got the PAP2 to work with another carrier? I spent over an hour on the phone with 3 levels of Linksys support staff and 2 levels of Vonage staff telling me that the PAP2 CAN NOT be used on any other service except vonage because they burn the vonage information into the firmware. Please explain... Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Simpson" <matthew@txlink.net> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Cc: <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:22 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] new ATA box for sale by Linksys> Fry's Electronics has a new Linksys 2 line ATA box for sale for $59.99 > retail. They have a version with a router for $89.99. We picked the > non-router version up and it seems to be a rebadged Sipura SPA-2000. The > box has a Vonage service package inside as well, but it does work withother> services. > > The box also has a "User Guide" meant for end-users that is very well > written [no Engrish] and explains the calling features and install well. > > I imagine that the wholesale price of these ATAs will be very attractiveif> they are selling for $60 retail! > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
> > Please explain how you got the PAP2 to work with another > carrier? I spent over an hour on the phone with 3 levels of > Linksys support staff and 2 levels of Vonage staff telling me > that the PAP2 CAN NOT be used on any other service except > vonage because they burn the vonage information into the firmware. > > Please explain... > Matthew >Matthew: When the PAP2 was first available, it was only sold as a Vonage locked version (the same one that I and it sounds like you got...got nowhere with it). Since then Linksys has released the PAP2-NA which is not locked to any particular service provider. The part number is the key... Marty
> I had 2 senior level management people at linksys corp > confirm that this would not be possible until December. They > both told me that they are currently in development of a > 'non-locked' version but that it would not be in stores until > December. > > Did you find these PAP2-NA at Fry's as well? Online somewhere? > > Thanks, > MatthewUntil about three or four days ago, various online vendors listed the PAP2-NA on their websites but none had any in stock...they all showed an ETA of the 14th or 15th (that's from memory)...anyway when I checked on Friday, a handful of vendors show them as in stock. I found them via froogle (http://www.google.com/froogle?q=pap2-na). I haven't received one yet to test, but the vendors that I called to confim that this unit isn't locked swear to that fact...a couple of the vendors that I have seen sell both models (PAP2 and PAP2-NA) and have PDF spec sheets for each, with the PDF for the PAP2 having Vonage's name and logo in it, and tha PAP2-NA having no evidence of Vonage listed in it... Marty
Antonio Rabena wrote:> I have 1 PAP2-NA. Configuration is done thru Phone (IVR) and Web. Im > wondering if this ATA supports auto-provisioning. >Can you confirm if under "Advanced Settings" there is a Provisioning Tab, and under it there is a space for a "Profile Rule"? -- Andres Network Admin http://www.telesip.net
Yes there is.. the default setting is /init.cfg. Not sure about these parameters.. I cant find this provisioning setting on the user-guide. maybe anyone can help? Regards, Antonio Rabena Andres wrote:> Antonio Rabena wrote: > >> I have 1 PAP2-NA. Configuration is done thru Phone (IVR) and Web. >> Im wondering if this ATA supports auto-provisioning. >> > Can you confirm if under "Advanced Settings" there is a Provisioning > Tab, and under it there is a space for a "Profile Rule"? > >
> > From your experience, could you give us the merits and demerits of > these ATA devices as well as the IAXy. >They are essentially a Sipura SPA-2000. One of my customers uses the Sipura exclusively for his customers and they work very well. Setup is easy, and they support the CLASS type features superbly. Thanks to everyone who cleared up the PAP2 versus PAP2-NA. I am not sure if the one bought at Fry's is the NA version or not. I didn't buy it, my customer did. If it's the Vonage-locked version I'm sure he'll return it. I do know that the only version Frys had on the shelf had a Vonage sticker pasted on it, but the side of the box seems to indicate that it will work with "any SIP phone service provider". Matthew N. Simpson TxLink Communications SIP/IAX VoIP Origination and Termination Minutes as low as 0.005/minute www.txlink.net/