Voip Hookup

[caseydoug]

I also prefer separate devices, and agree with burris that combo devices rarely perform their individual functions as well as a dedicated device would do. However, one advantage to having a router built into your ATA is that you can remove your regular router for testing purposes in order to troubleshoot. Since the router is so often the cause of voip connection problems, it's nice to be able to configure your ATA to obtain a routable public IP address in order to see whether the problems go away.

[chpalmer]

I will say that even though this (rt31p2) is a combo device the voice function seems to work better than the stand alone devices Ive had...

Using it behind a router here...

[KaneKessler]

I also prefer separate devices, and agree with burris that combo devices rarely perform their individual functions as well as a dedicated device would do. However, one advantage to having a router built into your ATA is that you can remove your regular router for testing purposes in order to troubleshoot. Since the router is so often the cause of voip connection problems, it's nice to be able to configure your ATA to obtain a routable public IP address in order to see whether the problems go away.

As someone who has tried both, I vote for the separate devices. Can't tell you how much time we wasted trouble-shooting (while experiencing outage) a combo only to find out it was the router..

[stevech]

As someone who has tried both, I vote for the separate devices. Can't tell you how much time we wasted trouble-shooting (while experiencing outage) a combo only to find out it was the router..

The HT502 can do NAT routing, but it lacks several common capabilities in home routers so I don't use it on the WAN side.