Landline phone with own router on FTTP

[bruce_miranda]

Just got FTTP and everything is working fine off the VF router. Phone lines are plugged into the VF router, VF router's WiFi is switched off. 3rd party Mesh has been switched to Bridge mode and plugged into the VF's ethernet port.

However I am shocked at how feature poor the VF router is. e.g. There are no Parental controls at all. I know I can get rid of the VF router and plug my own Mesh router into the Openreach ONT, but what about the Landline. 

Are there any 3rd party routers in the market that have a telephone socket at the back to allow the home phone to be plugged in? 

[yorkshire79]

I'm not sure I'm getting anywhere trying to register my HT812. I copied the configuration from another user with a HT812 posted earlier and have tried resetting to factory and upgrading the firmware.

I requested my SIP details again and they were identical. The SIP URI and username are identical lengths but different by one digit. I've tried all combinations of SIP URI and username in the SIP User ID and Authenticate ID but either get a 403 forbidden or 407 error.

In the SIP logs I just see either a registration request following by a Trying response followed by either a 403 forbidden or 407 depending on the combination of user details I provide.

Traffic between my router and HT812 seems ok. I've opened ports as described and wouldn't expect any sip traffic hitting the HT812 if that was a problem. Not sure what to try next.

[yorkshire79]

Finally registered. I tried for a 3rd time with vodafone chat and explained the issue with the SIP details provided and asked them to carefully check each value before sending them to me again. Low and behold they were missing a character of the password and they were indeed giving me the wrong username

[Cynric]

@yorkshire79 it's not the first time and will not be the last time that they get the credentials wrong.

[lorky]

Most ISPs voip service runs from a phone port on the back of their router which you can plug your existing phone into. Older Openreach ONTs have a phone port but it's not used for new services, only some legacy customers.

You could port your number to a separate voip provider or you could use the service provider router in bridge mode then connect your own router.

[Ripshod]

It's a bit late for that now. End of contract for porting numbers away, as with vodafone (and many others) porting the number away cancels the broadband contract and incurrs an early termination fee. 

[Anonymous]

Out of interest, has anyone got this working with UniFi gateway?

my opnSense box needs replacement and i already use UniFi AP’s so have the controller etc already.

I know the UniFi gateways are a bit dumbed down, but never used one to know if they have sufficient config options available to make this work…

[Ripshod]

If the "gateway" is a voip device then no. If it's just a router/NAT then there's no reason why one of the listed grandstream or cisco devices wouldn't work. 

[Anonymous]

The UniFi gateway is a router/NAT, but I’m unsure if it has the capability exposed to the user to implement this…

[yorkshire79]

I’m using an Eero Pro 6 instead of the Vodafone router. The eero is very limited in terms of networking config but it works fine with my Grandstream HT812. No port forwarding or special config required. I opted for a static IP to simplify the setup.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, thats great feedback.

I’ve already got a static IP with my opnSense setup, so hopefully I’ll be able to migrate easily