Cisco Internet Phone Adapter with 2 Ports for Voice-over-IP PAP2T-NA – VoIP phone adapter

May 25, 2010 Brownweb 5 comments

Former Linksys Business Series
Two standard telephone ports for analog phones or fax machines that serve as separate lines, complete with unique phone numbers
Call Waiting, Cancel Call Waiting, Call Waiting Caller ID
Caller ID with Name/Number (Multi-national Variants)

Product Description
Subject to customer authorization by Linksys. The Linksys PAP2T Internet Phone Adapter enables high-quality feature-rich VoIP (voice over IP) service through your broadband Internet connection. Just plug it into your home Router or Gateway and use the two standard telephone ports to connect analogue phones or use one of the ports for a fax machine…. More >>

Cisco Internet Phone Adapter with 2 Ports for Voice-over-IP PAP2T-NA – VoIP phone adapter

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Computer Hardware Adapter, Cisco, Internet, PAP2TNA, Phone, Ports, VoiceoverIP, VOIP

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Written by DMZ about 3 months ago.

Are you ready to jump into the exciting world of VOIP? Freedom and cost savings are there to be had, but be aware that this market is still in a developing stage, and if you are not a techie, you are strongly advised to not buy a product like this and simply sign up with a VOIP provider who will include the equipment as part of the package. This will insure you have the best support in case anything goes wrong.

If you’re still reading, you should be nevertheless aware that the configuration screens for these type of devices are obscure and take a bit of a learning curve. There is a full manual in searchable PDF which you will likely need to refer to, but when you do, it is very good.

Now, after all that, if you need a dual line or dual channel VOIP ATA (analog telephone adapter), let me heartily state that this is your product. I own one and love it, and have read many reports from other satisfied users. What is a channel? Well in the wonderful world of VOIP, a channel is an active call. Many providers, when you pay for an incoming phone number (aka DID, or Direct Inward Dialing number), give you two or more channels. What does this mean? If you have two phones hooked up to this unit, but are only paying for one DID, if you are on one line, the other will automatically ring if someone calls you. Conversely, if someone is actively calling on one channel, you can pick up the line on the other channel and make a call. I have not yet personally tried this but I have been assured that such things are possible.

Your VOIP provider should be able to help you get it configured correctly. Linksys (they bought out Sipura, who is the de-facto standard for VOIP ATA’s) is very well supported by most VOIP providers.

Note: if you only need one VOIP line and channel, I would recommend the Linksys 2102 or 3102 instead. The 2102 includes a router (should automatically handle port-forwarding issues). The 3102 has a POTS (plain old telephone system) port (so you can call into the unit and call other countries cheaply from your cell phone, although Google Voice is just as good for this) and also allows you to register to more than one VOIP gateway at a time, allowing you to configure your dial plan for the cheapest provider to whatever countries you call to most.
Rating: 4 / 5
Written by D. Schumann about 3 months ago.

You need to know what you’re doing to really get the most out of this device, but really, this device works fine. I own several of them and use them for my business and home.

To get it to work, you need to sign up for a SIP account with a VOIP provider, like Voip.ms, Voicepulse, Vitelity, or Callcentric.

I suggest updating the firmware as soon as you receive it, as there are frequent useful firmware updates.

To respond to some of the one star reviews:

Of course the device doesn’t work with Vonage, it’s not supposed to! Vonage doesn’t use SIP!

Of course the device died when you plugged the wrong power adapter into it – it fried the circuit board. You could make that same comment about hundreds of devices.

UPDATE: While I still think this device is good, I now recommend purchasing a Linksys SPA-2102 instead, due to a new firmware update from Linksys. It’s worth the extra $[...] or $[...] bucks for the ability to tweak DTMF detection.
Rating: 4 / 5
Written by Trini about 3 months ago.

The adapter needs to be connected to a VoIP phone service and high speed internet in order to work. I have the phone service through my home based business and it works fine. What’s great about the adapter is that it’s portable. I can take it anywhere in the world and plug it into a a high speed internet router or modem, plug my phone into it, and it will ring when someone calls my home number. What’s even better is that I don’t pay an arm and a leg for the service. This adapter is indeed the wave of the future.
Rating: 5 / 5
Written by M. Benson about 3 months ago.

I would give much higher reviews but it seems the support on this device is lacking from any corner of the earth. You can’t upgrade the firmware except through OS less then Vista. It is a bear to configure and their is no configuration software – the company Cisco/Linksys sends you to chat on their site, which says it can’t help. They then send you to India which says they can’t help you after stumbling through scripts which they can not deviate from. They say go to the store which sold you the product. Hmmm… Amazon is going to help me configure Linksys Product for VOIP? Wow – Amazon must be really good – not. They send you to Voxilla which is the company that actually sold it to you.

Voxilla tells you to use their forums. If thats not helpful then use their help forum. If that is not helpful, and out of a last resort (paraphrasing their message), then leave a message and they will call you back. Its been quite some time now since I left a message. They have a configuration utility that is only a small part useful. So unless you are a technical genius or unless Linksys starts thinking its customers deserve some decent American help and assistance directly to their customers – avoid this company.
Rating: 1 / 5
Written by J. Aday about 3 months ago.

I’d recommend not doing this unless you’re prepared to spend an evening or two figuring it all out… after endless searching, it seems the best voip service vs. price I could find is future-nine.com (compare them all on broadbandreports.com.. this one had rave reviews and about half the price of others).. so I signed up. They had a faq page that had directions on how to setup the linksys device. It actually worked the first time I tried, which I did NOT expect. Our bill has shrunk for $20-30/month to $0-5/month.

Apparently, there are a thousand voip companies out there… so you can always change if you need to. Since I put the device on a network with a linksys wrt54g router, I had to do some setup so the router didn’t disrupt the voip (I installed tomato firmware and setup the QOS options for voip.. do a google search… [...]Lastly, make sure you have good internet.. don’t try to hook it up with unreliable wireless.. and make sure you have a good connection [...] Finally, if you’re really cheap, you can use [...] to get a free washington phone number (to give out so that you can receive calls.) Future-nine lets you use them!!!

Aside from the lower price, I now have TWO phone lines, caller ID, call waiting, and a voicemail system (which I don’t use since I’m partial to my old ans. machine.) Lastly, you can fan it out to all your phones.. I don’t know what the limit is, but I connected it to our media panel and that connected all the house phones… 2 wired, and 3 cordless. Future-nine says they support fax too.. haven’t tried yet.

If it’s not working well, it’s probably your router / firewall / connection speed…
Rating: 5 / 5

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