Re: VOIP

[Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

My linksys has been rock solid for a few years now.  My dad's netgear
> hasn't given him much trouble either.


I have had a couple of Linksys units fail, one Netgear have one port of the
switch fail, and I am currently using a dual WAN netgear which has
occassional lockups.  But it does better than the Zycel dual WAN router
which it replaced.  So I just put the netgear router into a remote control
power switch and wrote a small watchdog program to test my internet
connections and when the netgear hangs, the power is automatically cycled to
restore service again.

I have both cable and DSL so that I still have connectivity if just one ISP
goes offline, but using a dual WAN router means I can have some load
balancing occuring when both are working (which is most of the time).  I
haven't found a dual WAN router which I really like yet though.  :(

The router does have QoS and protocol binding so I could force all VoIP
traffic to a specific WAN if I put one behind the router though.

How well does the multi-ring feature work for you?  The ability to answer on
either an office or cell phone would be kinda neat.

Doug