[Asterisk-Users] Vonage ATA 186 Factory Default & use with Asterisk ?

[Bruce Ferrell]

That answers one question for me.  I won't be buying any of those vonage 
ATA-186s being advertised on e-bay

Brian Capouch wrote:
> John Schmerold wrote:
> 
>> I've canceled my Vonage service because of the requirement to prefix 
>> every call with a 1.
>>
>> Vonage has charged me $42 & will refund this when they get my ATA186 
>> back.  I'm thinking I should keep the 186 for possible use with Asterisk.
>>
>> Anyone know if this will work out?
>>
>> As I understand it, the procedure to set the ATA186 back to factory 
>> defaults is as follows:
>> Press the function button on the Cisco ATA.
>> Press the digits 322873738 (FACTRESET) then # on your telephone keypad.
>> Press 3 on your telephone keypad to confirm ATA reset & hang up phone
>>
> 
> Not any more.
> 
> Vonage got Cisco to include a "password protect the config" in the 
> latest version of the firmware, and as far as I know now all the Vonage 
> ATAs are forever destined to be used with Vonage and only Vonage.
> 
> I have stridently communicated my concern in this matter to them (I have 
> been a Vonage customer almost from Day One, and I spend quite a bit with 
> them) but they seem resolute that (as far as I know) even though nowhere 
> do they tell you that they maintain ownership of the ATA interface in 
> perpetuity, that is in fact in practice what all of this means.
> 
> I object most stridently to this on "green" grounds: they are purposely 
> setting things up so that perfectly good hardware is only fit for the 
> dustbin.  I know there are arguments against this perspective, but of 
> all the things Vonage does, this one I find to be reprehensible and 
> damaging to their ultimate interests.
> 
> Time will tell, of course.
> 
> B.
> 
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