David Floyd formulated on Saturday :[color=blue]
> In message of Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Jono writes[color=green]
>>David Floyd laid this down on his screen :[color=darkred]
>>> For over two years now I've been using an SPA3000 with voip.co.uk with no
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I have not used BT during this time, but now that free calls are available
>>> evening and week-ends with BT, whereas they are still 1ppm with
>>> voip.co.uk I have set up the SPA so that I can make calls via BT when I
>>> need to.
>>>
>>> The trouble is I cannot get the quality right.
>>>
>>> Apparently the person I call hears me fine and I can hear them OK, but I
>>> get an echo form my own voice and sometimes a bit of breaking up when
>>> both parties cross talk.
>>>
>>> I won't list all my settings here at this point (far too many) but if
>>> any-one has any ideas to correct this and wants to know particular
>>> settings that I already have, I'll list whatever you request.
>>>
>>> I cannot understand why the quality should be affected when it's not a
>>> voip call :-(
>>>
>>> Hope some-one can help.
>>>
>>> David[/color]
>>
>>I found that, tweaking the gain settings[/color]
>
> I have SPA to PSTN Gain: 10
> and PSTN to SPA Gain: 10[/color]

I would drop these bit by bit.

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>>and upgrading the firmware to the latest Linksys branded version,
>> dramatically reduced PSTN audio problems.
>>
>>What firmware are you running?[/color]
>
> What is meant by firmware? The info tab shows Software Version: 3.1.10(GWd)
> and Hardware Version: 2.0.1(99e2)[/color]

Software Version: 3.1.20(GW) Hardware Version: 2.0.1(81e2) on mine -
I'm not saying it's brilliant on PSTN calls but it's always worth a
try.
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>>I've just had a quick look on the Linksys site and they appear to have
>> removed the firmware.....
>>
>>I have a copy of spa3000-3-1-20GW.bin if you need it.
>>
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>
> Are there instructions on how to go about installing it?[/color]

There is a tool for performing the upgrade but it usually doesn't work.
the easiest way is to do it via a browser & a website:

You can put the raw firmware image "spa.bin" on a reachable tftp or
webserver server

Goto your web browser, and type in:
[url]http://IPADDYOFSPA/upgrade?http://WEBSERVER/spa3000-3-1-20GW.bin[/url]

With firmware 1.0.30 and above, you can use http in place of tftp
method.

At any time during the 40-seconds upgrade process, please don't unplug
the power.
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>
> Thanks for your help
> David
>
> It looks as though we are both using email addresses that can't be
> communicated with - I'll set up a special one for this and let you know.[/color]

No probs.