Anyone else down?

[VOIPoTim]

I want to post a closing comment to my ridiculous saga.

I spent quite a bit of time this afternoon with Brandon - trying all sorts of interesting router and pap2/server configurations.

I even set up my 'old' WRT54GS as the internet router, and hung the PAP2 off it, taking the WRT610N out of the picture.

The behavior was identical.

I ended up flashing the 54GS to DD-WRT.
And.....

IT JUST FREAKIN' WORKS

No port forwarding
No port triggering
No DMZ

No nothing
As basic a router config as you can get.

It just works.

Somebody needs to take whoever is responsible for the NAT section of the LINKSYS firmware, and put him in a room with a couple dozen recalcitrant Linksys routers and PAP2s. Tell him/her they can come out when they just work properly all the time.

Many thanks to Brandon, and Tim - for their dedication and patience.

Now to compose a nastygram for the President of Cisco......

This is what we fight every day with getting through it through to users...but most don't believe us and insist that it must just be that the service is unreliable for everyone.

The majority of the users with problems just don't realize they're being caused by their routers.

I know it's crazy, but the newer, more advanced the routers are, the more problems they seem to have.

Users think that because they don't have anything forwarded on them the router won't mess with them. The new ones mostly seem to rewrite ALL traffic though so it causes issues.

Glad to hear you're up and running.

[dbmaven]

I know it's crazy, but the newer, more advanced the routers are, the more problems they seem to have.

Users think that because they don't have anything forwarded on them the router won't mess with them. The new ones mostly seem to rewrite ALL traffic though so it causes issues.

Glad to hear you're up and running.

I'm glad too - and I know you and Brandon are

Sooner or later you and other VoIP providers are going to have to deal with Cisco on stuff like this - along with those of us having the issues and fighting through them. The average guy/gal really does want this stuff to be plug and play - and if it isn't - they'll bail. The router works for internet and everything else - but it doesn't work for VoIP - must be VoIP's problem.....

I'll be happy to help in any way I can.

[ptrowski]

I followed dbmaven's lead and went DD-WRT across the boards. Running a WRT54G v4 into the cable modem and a WRT54GL as a wireless bridge.

I also learned it's not best to do it late night after some drinks.