I have posted earlier in this chain in regards to my connectivity @home connectivity issues. The only REAL problem I have had was with my ISP. Once that was resolved I have reset my router once and have had a solid connection for about three months now.

A lot of the issues seem to come from people who have changed their Router making connections to the callserver an issue. I see that from how many issues are cleared up from resetting the router back to factory settings.

I am saying that due to differences in ISP’s (Cable, DSL, Static IP, Dynamic IP, etc.) there may or may not be “TWEAKS”, but I personally have used the default settings and as an early adopter I did update my firmware. I have been very satisfied and happy with my T-Mobile @Home Service and not had any problems.

I see that Vonage has a TON of connectivity issue postings on the internet. I will conclude with:

If your Vonage was stable then the T-Mobile @Home should be also.

There are selective call forwarding features check your manual or give CC a call.

CFNA Call FWD No Answer. If you change your setting to this you lose the VM feature I believe but it will forward to your cell phone. You can set how many rings before the forward occurs or time. I also am not sure if any charges due to call forwarding apply. Ask CC to be sure.

There is also a setting within the VoiceMail to have any messages left on your @Home number to “Page” your cell phone. This is how mine is set up and when someone leaves a message I get a CALL from my home phone. If I pick up the call I will hear a serioes of DTMF tones for a paging service, but I now know that someone has left a VM for me at my home while I am out. This is free or I hasve not seen any charges for this feature being used on my bill and it works well for me.

If someone needs to get a hold of me and they know me they will call my cell. If they don’t know me that well then they leave a message at my home.

I hope this answers your question.

So I followed a combination of great advice from these posts.

I first reset my @Home router to factory settings.

Once that was completed I changed the DNS to the OpenDNS addresses.

Within 5 minutes my blue light was back on.

Thanks for info.

Sorry to hear you’re having problems. Although I’m hesitant to mention it because it seems terrible to have to do this, but perhaps you can try bypassing Charter’s DNS server and using one of the free ones that are out there.

Here is an example:
http://www.wyckedone.net/2006-07-17/opendns-should-you-make-the-switch/

Let us know how you make out if you try it.

mark

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The @Home service needs to Register the SIM regularly via a direct connection to T-Mobile. For whatever reason Charters DNS can not resolve to T-Mobile.

To check this attempt to Ping a website you do not regularly visit. What happens in my case is the I get 100% packet loss. If you ping a site to you regularly visit there shouldn’t be a problem.

Charter does nothing to help.

This status continued to this morning (Thursday) and I went into the Linksys from my webbrowser, did a Factory Restore, and then re-entered my settings and after about 10 minutes it is working again.

This saved my day.!

So that’s why I switched to Comcast.

I’m happy with the service. I haven’t had any outages that I’ve noticed since I got the service, which is a relief since I was really concerned that it would be similar to back when I used to have cable broadband. I had originally signed up for it with a company named “@home”, and the service was terrible - constant drops, and constant variations in bandwidth. That company went bankrupt and Comcast scooped em up and it didn’t get any better. A year or so later I switched to DSL and was really happy with it. I got the 1.5m down consistently, which I was thrilled with since they only promised/sold 384k or 768k at the time I started (I can’t remember which).

I don’t notice any difference in speed since switching to Comcast even though the bandwidth I’m getting according the the speed tests is > 6mb now. I’m sure that for larger downloads it is faster, but I don’t recall ever thinking the DSL was slow.

So far, Comcast has done me alright since switching. But I’m well aware that I’m ‘in bed with the devil’. Unfortunately now these companies are locking people up with contracts - I’m under contract with T-Mobile for my cell and landline service now, and Comcast is pushing their ‘triple play’ which requires a 2 year commitment, and I believe Verizon is doing the same.

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