NetWatchMan
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Alpharetta, GA
| Green ATA: Unlocking (Vonage) Cisco ATA-186s
Having been a Vonage customer for more than 5 years now and had multiple lines I had not one but two Cisco ATA 186s sitting on a shelf. As I am desperate to give Vonage the boot very soon, I needed a way to hook up my two wireless phone base stations to my new asterisk server.
It seemed like a raw waste to not be able to utilize the these ATA 186s.
I spent several days trying to brute force the passwords to no avail (I don't even think bruting is an option with the firmware versions I have).
After much googling I stumbled on the solution:
»puck.nether.net/~jared/voip.html···o_ata186
Basically he rips the FLASH chip off the circuit board and reads the password using a separate FLASH reader!
Funny thing is I actually know Jared personally and he unlocked my two ATAs in a jiffy (took less than a week round-trip)...my situation was even more complicated as he had the soldered FLASH instead of the socketed, so expect to pay a bit more if this is your situation.
Feels good to not be tossing perfectly good hardware in the trash.
Two thumbs up for Jared!!
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Lawrence Baldwin
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meister_sd
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La Mesa, CA | Nice to see re-use. |
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toro
join:2006-01-27
Scarborough, ON
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Are these adapters really that good (or any good) ? Seeing how they were designed back in 2000 or so, I would expect them to be quite outdated and lacking features that newer models have. Still they seem to sell on eBay at prices higher than for example the PAP2.
I too have one that is still locked for Vonage, but I wouldn't spend $25 to get it unlocked. |
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