[cisco-voip] ATA changes

[Robert Singleton]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:07 -0500, Fred Fern wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is part of the speed issue but ATA186 are 10BaseT
> while ATA188 are 10/100BaseT

Hmmmmm... I checked out the new ATA186 on my own fax machine and
verified this. Off the cuff, I'm guessing this would not be the issue
because the particular units I described are all ATA-188's that have
been in service for a year or more at 100/full, but suddenly changed to
10/half, all three on the same day in three different locations. The
network topology is such that these three locations share a single path
to the CM and the day they first changed, there were issues with that
circuit flapping. I am about 99% sure that during that connectivity
event is when the ATAs got the flag that caused them to upgrade the
firmware.

I do, however, have a few 186's in new locations and I will check those
out carefully. I was very disappointed that they stopped making the
188's, or at least that was the story our VAR sold to us. That built in
switch was very handy for use with multifunction devices that print and
fax.

Robert