[ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential

[Justin Goldberg]

That's right, Alex. They do some weird VoIP from packetcable labs that is
incompatible with normal VoIP ATA's, IMHO. So it would never work.

Regarding running a VPN, I was referring to doing so on a home connection.
I did not realize that he was doing this on a business line.

Justin
On Nov 12, 2015 10:23 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> Static vs. dynamic IPs are one thing but the VoIP is entirely another.
> I don't know if they would allow your own device for the ATA.  Many
> cable providers that I've used or experienced give out two boxes, one
> for the ethernet and one for the ATA (in one place I had an Arris for
> the ATA to run my phones and an SMC for the ethernet even though both
> boxes had dual functionality).
>
> On 2015-11-12 08:42, Horkan Smith wrote:
> > My understanding:
> >
> > If you need static IPs, yes, you need their modem.
> >
> > If you don't need static IPs, no, you don't need their modem.
> >
> > later!
> >    horkan
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:33:29AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >> How committed am I to their cable modem? I'm working through issues at
> our office and their modem provides NO features for me. It is a SMC model
> with no logging. I simply can only see the current status. No static
> routes, etc.
> >>
> >> Can I buy my own modem for their business service?
> >>
> >>> From: "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> >>> To: ale at ale.org
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:32:53 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential
> >>
> >>> On 2015-11-11 15:27, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >>>> I do not think their business service is VoIP. At our office we have
> 4 phones.
> >>>> They all go back to a box that connects to their cable service. I
> have a
> >>>> working fax machine on a line and I am sure I've used a modem there
> on a line.
> >>
> >>> That box is an ATA to provide you an analog line on one side that
> >>> connects to their VoIP system on the other side. You can do fax over
> >>> VoIP with an ATA.
> >>
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