Loss of VoIP in Qatar

Posts: 22 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 22

Call the following, strange, stupid, ridiculous, no way, what the beep, you name it.

I take my Vonage adaptor to bmardini's house, called Vonage using it few times, with a bad voice quality, go home sad.

Plug it at home, only line-2 light turns on, as I have subscribed for two lines. Line-1 dead, not even a dial tone.

Line-2 worked very well, calling, answering and everything !!!

I suspect that line-2 uses different ports than line-1, perhaps necessary to use both lines at the same time.

Try this, login into your vonage account, order a new line on the same adaptor (do not request a new adaptor), that will set your budget back a mere $5, and take a chance that might work.

If it did not, keep calling Vonage , on your fancy Qtel line, and tell them that your line have bad quality, and they seem to have many buttons to tweak from their side.

I had to forward my line-1 number to line-2, so they both now ring at the same phone, not a major issue.

Yes, you are going to say how the beep this could happen? but I thought I share with you.

Now, why line-2 worked at my house but not bmardini's, that is what they call the 60K question.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 5

Maybe Vonage should support VPN tunneling service or other options to people like us in Qatar.

Also, you can verify your VOIP is blocked at:
http://www.testyour voip.com

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 11

Motorola VT1005V modem setup:

Log into your motorola modem : 192.102.1.1
Change IP address from DHCP to a static IP
Input your router IP
Input the q-tel Nameserver IP: 212.77.192.59

Once I did this, my motorola sync'd up and I have VOIP again Lol

. Granted, it is choppy, but I'm working on what I can do about that Confused

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Line 2 is same quality as line 1 Mad

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 12

alibaba wrote:

Also, you can verify your VOIP is blocked at:
http://www.testyour voip.com

Thanks alibaba ..

ahmed_ / bmardini /peanut954 / and any volunteers
Could you please run the above test and report back the results
I have done so and got:
1- Normal config timed out "Port 5060 is blocked"
2- using a VPN and select Boston I got 3.9 score

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 8

aladin405 wrote:

alibaba wrote:

Also, you can verify your VOIP is blocked at:
http://www.testyour voip.com

Thanks alibaba ..

ahmed_ / bmardini /peanut954 / and any volunteers
Could you please run the above test and report back the results
I have done so and got:
1- Normal config timed out "Port 5060 is blocked"
2- using a VPN and select Boston I got 3.9 score

Hello there from USA..
I have just baught a VPN router and wonder if this will be my solution when I come back to Qatar. Ahmed, please let me know what should I do now..
Thanks to all your support guys and hope we can acheive something here.
Happy Holidays..

Posts: 39 · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:58 am Post subject: Re: vonage with vpn

aladin405 wrote:

alibaba wrote:

Also, you can verify your VOIP is blocked at:
http://www.testyour voip.com

Thanks alibaba ..

ahmed_ / bmardini /peanut954 / and any volunteers
Could you please run the above test and report back the results
I have done so and got:
1- Normal config timed out "Port 5060 is blocked"
2- using a VPN and select Boston I got 3.9 score

Ahmad and I tried to perform the test few times and our connection have failed every time. Which mean the mentioned port is blocked. Ahmad will try a VPN connection with Oash in the states, and if this solution works, we can communicate this solution to Vonage and maybe we all can attempt a similar solution.

Happy holidays to every one. Snow Flake

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 5

ahmed_ / bmardini /peanut954

My VOIP test report shows that "Port 5060 is blocked".

Test Failed

Your computer couldn't call our location on the standard SIP port (5060) or a commonly available port (6000). This suggests that a firewall is blocking all UDP access including SIP. Please check the following:

* Your Personal Firewall, if you are using Windows XP, may be filtering the SIP and UDP ports used for communication.
* Your home firewall or your broadband provider's firewall may be blocking the SIP and UDP ports used for communication.

Please check these firewall settings and ensure that UDP ports 5060 and 50000 - 50100 are open for RTP streams and SIP signaling.

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 12

Since we all want to respect the moderator's wishes, and it seems that technical solutions may well turn out to be "chasing our tails", does anyone want to continue to discuss possible political solutions to this issue elsewhere? Let me know.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 5

yahya wrote:

Since we all want to respect the moderator's wishes, and it seems that technical solutions may well turn out to be "chasing our tails", does anyone want to continue to discuss possible political solutions to this issue elsewhere? Let me know.

Yahya!!!!count on me. Letus talk about other possible solution and keep it within the moderator's wishes.

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 12

I'm following this in Yahya's Blog at qatarliving.com. You can join me there if you wish to discuss solution possiblities outside the scope of this forum.

See you there!