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nic.wise

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#140726 18-Feb-2014 20:04
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Hi!

I have an OLD PAP2T (from when VFX was first launched I think - 7 or 8 years ago). It's setup as follows:

SNAP ADSL
Vigor 120 -> Airport Express (bridge mode)
  -> Airport Extreme (wifi extended) -> PAP2T via ethernet.

In the past, I've used the pap2t from London, so I suspect SNAP isn't the issue.

The phone works fine, mostly. I can pick up the phone, and make a call. I can then call it, and it rings. No issues there.

However, if I leave it for a while (not sure - we don't get many calls :) next day for sure, may be shorter) and someone calls, the phone doesn't ring. I get the emails saying someone called, and voice mail, but no riningin. Pick the phone up, and it's all good again.

I assume a NAT somewhere is dropping the connection and not telling the PAP2T to reconnect. It could be DHCP, tho it dial immediately, so I doubt thats it.

Any ideas how to fix it? The airport express doesn't have a NAT timeout setting, and the pap2t has a NAT Keepalive, but I can't edit line 1.

saying "call WXC" is a valid response :)

Thanks!

Nic






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  #989940 18-Feb-2014 20:04
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  #990205 19-Feb-2014 10:25
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PeterReader: Hello... Our robot found some keywords in your post, so here is an automated reply with some important things to note regarding broadband speeds.



Yup.... not overly relevant in this case. But a good idea none the less.




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  #990214 19-Feb-2014 10:41
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nic.wise:
PeterReader: Hello... Our robot found some keywords in your post, so here is an automated reply with some important things to note regarding broadband speeds.



Yup.... not overly relevant in this case. But a good idea none the less.

You must always take PeterReader's advise, and a master filter will magically fix your VoIP issues for sure :)

Any SIP ALG option in the Apple router? This sounds like firewall issue. Can you plug PAP2T into AirPort Express directly, rather than the Extreme?




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  #990231 19-Feb-2014 10:50
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Hi Nic,
PM'd you with what we see on our end, you might need to look for SIP ALG's and disable them, and make sure you got the VFX signalling ports forward to the LAN ip address of your pap2t, speficially UDP port range 5060-5065 (don't worry about TCP as this device does not use TCP signalling).

Hope this works.

Edit: Beaten by coffeebaron :(

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  #990242 19-Feb-2014 10:57
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coffeebaron:
nic.wise:
PeterReader: Hello... Our robot found some keywords in your post, so here is an automated reply with some important things to note regarding broadband speeds.



Yup.... not overly relevant in this case. But a good idea none the less.

You must always take PeterReader's advise, and a master filter will magically fix your VoIP issues for sure :)

Any SIP ALG option in the Apple router? This sounds like firewall issue. Can you plug PAP2T into AirPort Express directly, rather than the Extreme?


Thanks @coffeebaron and @grudge - I'll see if I can port-forward from the Express. Problem is, it takes a while to "timeout", so it's a PITA to test!

But I'll give it a go. From a quick google, the airport doesn't so SIP ALG at all.  Might have to go back to the Fritzbox...




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  #990252 19-Feb-2014 11:00
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coffeebaron: 
You must always take PeterReader's advise, and a master filter will magically fix your VoIP issues for sure :)



Do you install on Waiheke? If so, I suspect I'll want a master filter once we get VDSL. :) But first we need to go unconditional on the house :)




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  #990328 19-Feb-2014 12:03
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Pretty sure that Chorus install a master splitter with all VDSL installs (or should do anyway)

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