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I just took a glance at my SIP ATA’s statistics (a Grandstream HandyTone 286, I think it deserves the plug):

Product Model: HT286 REV 3.0
System Up Time: 77 day(s) 22 hour(s) 5 minute(s)
Total Inbound Calls: 111
Total Outbound Calls: 7
Total Missed Calls: 83
Total Call Time (in minutes): 57039
Total SIP Message Sent: 5436
Total SIP Message Received: 5037
Total RTP Packet Sent: 1685994
Total RTP Packet Received: 930233
Total RTP Packet Loss: 115590

Not bad for a chunk of plastic worth €60, isn’t it?

Eat this, Skype.

Even the RTP Packet Loss seems more than reasonable, given that my telephony provider is not the same as my broadband service provider.

Something must be wrong with the outbound calls counter, though; we’ve dialed a lot more than 7. Still no phone bill and less than €10 worth of voice traffic for the last three months.

Eat this, Telecoms.

UPDATE: The ATA stopped working properly a few hours after I wrote this. Way to go!

UPDATE: I came back home and, needless to say, just power-cycling the ATA fixed everything.

The fact is I couldn’t receive or dial calls from/to PSTN. To be honest, I’m quite convinced the culprit was my telephony provider rather than the ATA itself, since I still got a tone from it; but I can’t be sure now.

I was away from home so several hours passed before I was able to fix the issue. In hindsight, I could have done it remotely, if only I remembered there is a “reboot” button in the web-based configuration interface. In addition, I’m sure there is a way to do this from the analog phone’s keypad; I just need to check the manual for the correct code and instruct my parents in case this happens again while I’m away.

Thanks and see you in 77 days.

UPDATE: ***-99-9. Neat!