[asterisk-users] Sipura 3000 replacement ---> SPA3102 how reliable is it?

[Steve Underwood]

Dave Cotton wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
>   
>> On 07/11/08 18:37, Dave Cotton wrote:
>>     
>>> SIP wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Joseph wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I need another Sipura 3K and the replacement I think is Linksys SPA3102.
>>>>> Any input on how reliable is it?
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> We have a few dozen subscribers using them at any given point in time. I 
>>>> and my wife even use them at our respective homes.  Rock solid stable. 
>>>> No issues whatsoever.
>>>>         
>>> The only reservation I've got with the 3000/3102 units is that I've had 
>>> 3 destroyed by lightening recently. But I'm told it's because I'm on the 
>>> end of 3kms of cable across open countryside.  The others I've installed 
>>> in non rural installations work faultlessly.
>>>
>>> DC
>>>       
>> If you plug it into to UPS some of them have protection for phone lines, it should protect it from lightning. 
>>     
>
> Should is the operative word. They didn't.
>
> DC
>   
I'm very suspicious of the effectiveness of the things they put in low 
end UPSes. However, if you buy the kind of lightning suppressor that is 
attached to phone lines as the enter your house, and put one at each end 
of your 3km of cable, it should help a lot.

Regards,
Steve