In message <4sttn1F11fqnjU1@mid.individual.net>, Ivor Jones
<ivor@despammed.invalid> writes[color=blue]
>"news" <news@care4free.net> wrote in message
>news:raw1k8FnQVaFFwrj@care4free.net[color=green]
>>
>> 1. When you pick up the phone, do you always get a dial
>> tone?[/color]
>
>Depends on your ATA - dial tone is generated by the ATA not by the
>provider.
>[/color]

You're right, of course, but that isn't quite what I was getting at. You
will only get the dial tone if the phone is registered. If the VoIP
provider's system has crashed or is otherwise unavailable, the ATA or
VoIP phone will fall back to a non-registered condition and you will not
get a dial tone. The availability of the provider's system was what I
had in mind in my question.

So, to re-phrase the question: How often have you experienced the NR
condition with Gradwell? Never? Almost never? A couple of times a year?
At least once a month? More frequently? Has the NR condition ever
extended to several minutes (or even hours), rather than just a
transient blip of a few seconds?

--
Ian