Brian A wrote:

> You asked in your original post about the Fritzbox.
> I have one and I also have an SPA-3000.
> I would say that the Fritzbox performs well and is much easier to get
> up and running, for the average person, than the SPA-3000.
> However, for me, I would have the SPA-3000 every time.
> My prime reason for saying this is the ability to customise the
> dialling experience via the dial plan. In its effort to be simple the
> Fritzbox loses out in this area. I have hardly used my Fritzbox 7140
> but I am considering selling it just for this reason - so any offers
> by email greatfully received.
> Personally, I have experienced little trouble with echo on either my
> SPA-3000 or the two SPA-3102 that I have set up for others.
> It is important to get the line impedance set correctly - then I just
> tweak the gain, as appropriate, and switch on the echo cancelling
> options.

Thanks for that.

> On a separate topic, not wishing to hijack the thread...
> I remotely control one of the SPA-3102 so that I can sort out any
> problems from home. I have found that it is impossible to get the web
> 'Voice' control interface to come up correctly on a Windows XP Pro
> platform using Firefox, Opera or MSIE 7.
> The problem I get is that all the tab contents displayed under each
> other, in one long list, and then the egg timer just hangs as if
> waiting for more data. I have tried emptying the RAM and disk cache to
> no avail. I am aware that this web interface uses javascript so there
> may be some problem there though I don't think that is the problem.
> In Ubuntu Linux it will display OK most of the time but sometimes the
> page needs to be loaded again for a correct display.

This has the sound of an MTU problem to me. I would monitor your
network traffic with WireShark and watch what happens when it stalls.
And/or, try temporarily reducing your client's MTU to something like
512. That's not a fix, but if it temporarily solves the problem, you
can then examine the network to try to see what's causing it.

Cheers,

- Martin.