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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:14:49 +1100
From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Recommendations for small wireless bridge
 for using Vonage ATA while travelling

Ig you friend is using a MAC and you are using a non-OS2 system, then, 
considering you are talking about access on the road, I really think 
you'd be better at looking at softphones rather than physical ATAs.

I am presuming that whereever you are with your PBX it's not a hotel and 
hence you will have some cabled connection and not need tyo rely on WiFi 
or am I getting this wrong ?

I need to correct what I said about the WRT54G and other similar routers 
can be configured to use PPPOE or WPA/WPA2 authentication to connect to 
other access points. It's only after this "physical" connection (often 
insecure in hotels and at public access points) that when you try to 
access anything via a browser, that you will be taken to a login screen 
where you will need to either give the code in that you purchased or 
your credit card details. So you should be fine. But to make sure, 
please check out this site where they will tell you what is possible 
with the WRT and several other AP/Routers better than I can:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php

Cheers/2

Ed.



Jeffrey Race wrote:
> Ed thanks for all the useful info.
>
> Do you mean the WRT54G will not be configurable to log in to e.g. a hotel's login page,
> if I modify the firmware to add the bridging function?
>
> We have two applications in mind:
>
>  - My friend the clueless point-and-drool Mac user, who often travels and takes his
>    Motorola  ATA with him to receive Vonage calls forwarded transparently from his NYC 
>    residence
>
>  - My own occasional situation with my early-days Cisco ATA (I was one of the
>    early Vonage customers--they no longer use the Cisco model ); at home I connect 
>    it to my PBX so calls from the USA ring into my home PBX here in Bangkok.   
>    Occasionally I might travel with it.
>
> OS/2: a separate issue for me.
>
> Let us know what you get from keeping after the SJPhone people.
>
> There is a Java-based IP phone service which works on OS/2; I have the details lying 
> around here somewhere; it was tested some time last year.
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:00:05 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote:
>   


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