UVerse?

[JimDog]

Anyone have UVerse? If yes, do you just put the ATA behind the 2Wire box? Or, do you put it behind your router which is behind the 2Wire box - if the latter, is all you do is put your router in what is called DMZPlus of the 2Wire box?

I just got UVerse today and am having some issue with incoming calls. It's obviously not a VOIPo problem, so I don't want to bug support and thought I learn from others best practices.

I've used it both ways without a problem. When I originally got U-verse, I was not using my own router and had everything connected to the 2Wire. The 2Wire thought the PAP2 was a router when I connected it and automatically prompted me to put it in DMZplus the next time I tried to browse a web site from my PC. I did put it in DMZplus and it worked fine that way. I did not try it without DMZplus.

Since then I've set up my own router, a Linksys WRTP54G-NA, behind the 2Wire and have been using it for all wired and wireless connectivity, except for the DVR and set top boxes which are connected directly to the 2Wire. My Linksys router is set up for DMZplus in the 2Wire and my PAP2 is connected to a LAN port on the Linksys router. The PAP2 is NOT in the Linksys router's DMZ and I do not have any ports forwarded. Aside from putting the Linksys router in the 2Wire's DMZ plus zone, everything else was plug and play. I haven't had any issues with this setup and everything's been working fine for months.