[asterisk-users] BT Fibre and 2701HGV

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:27 +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote:
> On 29/6/12 9:59 am, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of connecting SIP phones to an asterisk
> > server through the 2701HGV router that BT supply with their Infinity
> > product?
> 
> Good luck with that.
> 
> The BT 'Home Hub' and 'Business Hub' routers they supply with retail 
> ADSL and FTTC products seem to have a very poorly written SIP ALG in 
> them that cannot be disabled [0] easily. This seems to play havoc with 
> any attempt to hook up SIP devices - even just one handset.
> 
> [0] I have read that it's possible to disable the ALG through a telnet 
> session to the router, but it's somewhat fiddly and doesn't always 
> 'stick' - so has to be repeated whenever the router is restarted. In my 
> experience it's far easier just to replace the router with something 
> competent.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Chris

Hi Chris

That's pretty much what I suspected...
Mind you, we've had some success with the business hub recently, the
home hub is still impossible to use.

Ish

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