AT&T CallVantage - VOIP Service
Today the Fedex with my AT&T CallVantage VOIP gateway arrived. The gateway is a DLink VOIP Gateway.
The setup took just a few minutes. The first thing I did was go outside and access the user access panel for the phoneline coming into my house. I then unplugged the line to remove the outside line power from entering the home wiring. Next I attached the VOIP gateway into my network. I took the recommended design with placing the VOIP gateway before the router. I have read about poor bandwidth issues with the Dlink VOIP gateway in front of the router but as of yet I have not seen any issues. It was interesting to note that AT&T did include instructions on placing the VOIP gateway (or TA as they call it) behind the router - but they caution against this as possible effecting call quality and voicemail. I then reset the router as it obviously has a new gateway to work with.
Once that was done - I plugged a phone into the back of the VOIP gateway and got a busy signal. I then went to AT&T website and configured the VOIP gateway - within three minutes it was configured and the phone rang to signify it was ready. I had a dial tone. Made my first call - have to remember to use the 10 digit dialing. Next I then connected the VOIP Gateway to my home phone-line wiring. AT&T included excellent diagrams to walk through this.
Basically entails just plugging a phone line from the gateway into one of the phone line jacks in your home. Then all of the phones in my house were powered. So far so good. I then activated the fax and modem support to allow my DirecTV and Tivos to call home. This is the crucial step as if Tivo fails to call home - its back to a landline and no VOIP yet. I tried to make a few test calls with Tivo - but they failed. Then I remember 10 digit dialing and that I needed to add the area code to the number. Presto - connection and successful call.
Total installation time was less than 30 minutes. Phone quality sounds great. Set up voicemail with forwarding voicemail to my gmail account. Nice feature. I also activates the Locate Me feature for my VIP list of phone numbers which will simultaneously call my home phone, cell phone, and the phone in the Envoy - pretty cool.
iTunes currently playing New Slang from the album "Garden State" by The Shins
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