mkcruiser14
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1 edit | [General] Info Please!
Do I need to become pingable to use any V0IP? I am having a hard time gettin my pc to accept pings Win XP Pro and Vista Home Premium. |
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pandora
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Outland |  I run a PAP2T and my router is not pingable, there are configuration options to keep the link to the SIP server open.
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voipMatt
join:2008-07-30
Birmingham, AL | reply to mkcruiser14
From my experience.... no.
But it does help from a service provider troubleshooting perspective  |
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nitzan
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Being pingable doesn't matter. You would however want to set the NAT options on your adapter (NAT mapping and NAT keep-alive) to on if such options are available.
Assuming you are behind a NAT router. (99% of residential users are)
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mkcruiser14
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Mchenry, IL | reply to mkcruiser14
I did not see NAT in my settings on my ZyXEL X-550 XtremeMIMO Wireless Router
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nitzan
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join:2008-02-27 | If your router is assigning your computer an IP address, you are behind a NAT router.  (99% of routers are by default) |
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1 edit | reply to mkcruiser14
Re: [General] Info Please!
NAT is usually a non-routable IP range Like 192.168.0.1 different from what the router sees. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
So if your network uses internal addresses, then NAT uses your router's real world IP to talk on the web. (Sorry if this is already obvious!)
My point is a router refers to it as WAN(Routable) and LAN(Unroutable), but rarely calls it NAT.
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mkcruiser14
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Mchenry, IL | Thank you for all the info I will check out my settings and go for V0IP. |
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