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where you would normally plug in a standard telephone. You
may need to use a phone-jack adapter so the phone cord can
fit into your wall jack. If you have ADSL service at that wall
jack, you need to put an ADSL filter between that wall jack
and the ATA’s TELCO jack. Now continue with step 5.
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Plug the ATA’s power cube into the ATA’s PWR jack and
the other end into a “live” power strip or wall outlet.
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The ATA should go through a power-up and registration
sequence, and some of the ATA lights should light up. This
may take up to 3 minutes, and it should result in the READY
light turning on. Once the READY light is on you’re ready to
make phone calls. Congratulations! If the READY light does
not turn on after 3 minutes, please make sure that you
followed all the directions above.
Note: If your ATA is not working properly, it may be because your router is
configured to enable IP filtering. Routers usually come with IP filtering disabled, but
you or someone else may have enabled IP filtering. The easiest and best way to
resolve this issue is to configure a DMZ for the one router port connected to the
ATA. Your router’s documentation should show an easy way to configure this DMZ.
Making Phone Calls – The Basics
How you use the phone plugged into your ATA depends on the
answer to this question: Does your ATA have a TELCO jack
plugged into a phone jack with normal phone service?
- If it does not: When you dial, the digits you dial will
normally be passed to your VoIP service provider. Please
remember that even local calls need an area code.
- If it does: You can dial calls that first travel through the
Internet, or you can dial calls that first travel through your
normal telephone service by way of your TELCO jack. Your
ATA can be set up by your service provider, for instance, to
route all calls through the Internet unless those calls are local
or emergency calls. You can also force a call to go one way or
the other:
If you come off-hook and dial #8 then additional digits
will be dialed into your normal telephone service.
If you come off-hook and dial #9 then additional digits
will be dialed through the Internet.
If your ATA loses power, you can dial through your normal
telephone service as if you had a phone plugged directly into
a phone jack.