I just started using VFX today and thought I would share my experience as perhaps my setup was slightly different. I'm sure there are others who will join with a similar setup and may benefit from my experience.

Prior to recently purchasing a WRTP54G a few weeks ago I had been using a Grandstream 286 adapter and a SIP provider called InPhonex (USA) for the past few years. After I setup the WRTP54G, I simply re-configured it to continue using InPhonex.

So, it was a bit of an ominous start as my "welcome email" was sent to the wrong email address 2 days ago. This I only found out after contacting the dealer yesterday to ask if perhaps they been contacted. Leaving me wondering when or if someone was planning on contacting me at any stage, given that today is a week since I faxed the form in.

I found the instructions slightly lacking as it just said to add the link in the Profile Rule under Provisioning. What? Given that VFX appears to be  supported only on a handful of devices, perhaps a quick doco on where to find this (I had to google to find out) should be offered for noobs?? Anyways, so I found the required field, copied the link in, saved the config and rebooted the router by pulling the plug out, then back in.

What ensued was a lot of complaining by my wife as the router rebooted itself randomly without warning about 5 times in the space of about 15 minutes. I found myself panicking slightly too (visions of a hard reset were swirling in my head) and was about to restore the config I backed up the next time the router had an "up time" when it settled down.

After the first reboot I did manage to access the "Voice" menu on the router and noticed that the SIP settings for InPhonex were still there. Presuming that this what was causing the fault, I removed these settings, albeit over the space of a few reboots. Were the previous SIP settings the cause? Were the several reboots were normal? Was it just bad luck or bad karma? Who knows.

I made a call to Auckland this evening and the call quality was good. This could have been a momentary thing but despite my 2MB cable connection, I did find  that when I went to look up something on the internet while on the phone, internet browsing was unavailable but then returned when I hung up.

I'm planning on testing the call quality for a few weeks and if it's as good as everyone says it is (which I'm sure it is), I will port my number over from Telstra.

Here's hoping that goes a bit more smoothly.

GB