Replacement of a Cisco/Linksys SPA400

lotas · 12-08-2015 2:31pm #1

Morning all.

Have a linksys/cisco SPA400 in the house, but its next to useless... I have it connected to a FreePBX box, but every now and again it will connect... the rest of the time it wont... When it does connect, it lasts a couple of hours, then falls over again... Only way to get it back is to hard reset it.

Any recommendations on what i should look for in a replacement? looking for something that will have a minimum of 2 FXO ports (incoming), no out going ports required (all phones will be VoIP), something that will talk to Asterisk/FreePBX and probably a budget of about 100EUR...

Thanks.

13-08-2015 11:08am

It may be that the registration to the SIP provider is timing out and a reboot fixes it.
Change the registration timer/time out to 130 I think from memory.

lotas · 13-08-2015 11:24am

thanks for the tip, but i cant, for the life of me, figure out where the timer is!

13-08-2015 11:43am

I had a similar problem with Blueface and resolved it by moving them to a different SIP box because the old one I was using did not have that timer.
Someone should be along later with more experience of the SPA400 Unit, I think I have one somewhere but it is yonks since I used it.

lotas · 13-08-2015 12:15pm

thanks... Did some messing with the box today... calls do seem to be more stable, but still not getting caller ID... what do you use?

13-08-2015 4:20pm

The caller ID depends on what you have plugged in to display that caller ID.
Again settings could be changed for that - probably the country settings ?

I am using an old Fritz box for all SIP connections other than 2 Blueface extensions which are on a reflashed F1000 specifically for that registration reason.

The latest Fritz boxes would handle all of that but that's the way it works out for me.

lotas · 13-08-2015 4:24pm

looking at the fritzbox, it seems overkill for what i need... I already have a firewall (box running PFSense) and have my own Wifi network (Mikrotik routerboard). I also have a, well lets just say, complicated network setup (2 cable modems and 1 VSDL link). but i will keep digging.

Thanks.

13-08-2015 4:29pm

Might I ask have you joined those 3 ISP circuits or are they separate.

lotas · 13-08-2015 4:31pm

load balanced using PFSense.

13-08-2015 4:39pm

Thanks - must check that out.

lotas · 13-08-2015 4:41pm

ayyy. defiantly handy. was looking at some of those Fritz boxes... defiantly look cool... if i needed a router, they would be handy, but the ones i want (the one with LTE is nice) does not have a "normal" WAN port...

13-08-2015 7:57pm

The ones without a 'normal' WAN port you just setup one of the LAN ports instead.
The old one I have is a 7270 - made for DSL but I have never used it that way.
Just plug in the Internet cable to the first port and configure it that way.
Great for IP Phones & DECT

lotas · 13-08-2015 9:56pm

Interesting... Now to go looking more...

Replacement of a Cisco/Linksys SPA400

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