anyone know how to unlock a lingo ata?

[teh_chris]

i replaced my lingo ATA with viatalk and a linksys spa 1001. when i terminated my service i asked the customer service dude if i could give the old ATA to my friend. he said they couldn't re-use old equipment.

the technical information about lingo's service and equipment is conspicuously absent, and when i ran into problems with the ATA after upgrading my firewall (wrt54gl + openWRT + xWRT = <3) i discovered the ports to open on a firewall for the lingo ATA to start working again from this post on a random blog:

Originally Posted by UselessSupportGuy

This’ll probably never get read, but what the heck.

Scott: Your ATA’s (”lingo box”) port speed is set incorrectly, thus the ‘trickle of internet’ when it’s connected directly to the cable. With your computer connected to the ENET port, open IE, go to 172.25.25.1, user/ph3taswe, “WAN”, Port speed, set to Auto. Save configuration, save, reboot. Good idea to set that regardless of where you’re going to leave it. To get it working behind the router: Go into your router config page, Status, Local Network, DHCP clients table, grab the ip address of the lingo device from there, probably the only one without a host name or just compare the MACs. Then go to applications and gaming, DMZ, type the ip address in there. Option b, if you don’t want to DMZ, go to port forwarding, forward 1024-1030, 5060-5065, and 10000-20000 to that IP address. If you feel like it, then type the ATA’s ip address into the address bar, user/ph3taswe, WAN, make that IP static instead of DHCP.

Irish: See if you get the static with the ATA connected direct to the net, and with another, preferably non-cordless phone. If so, complain to your ISP. Then, after they refuse to help you, call Lingo to have them switch you to the G729 codec. You lose the ability to fax, but a call now requires half the bandwidth. If you still get static, TestYourVoIP.com . If your latency’s over 150 and/or you’ve got over 1% packet loss/discards, your ISP hates you and there’s nothing practical to be done about it.

Bill: Copy off Scott.

Disclaimer: The above is the sort of useless support I spend my days providing, neither I, nor Lingo, take responsibility for any incidental damages, fees, or functional ATA’s that may result from its use.

the whole blog post is here: Jeff Boulter’s Blog
the login info works on mine. the box uses DHCP to pull an IP, so you will have to check your leases to figure out what it's IP is.

so i have access to the config page on the ATA, but no clue what to do from there.

any guidance, pointers, warnings, or other input would be greatly appreciated.

i would love to unlock it and configure it for my friend to use some other service, since i already paid lingo for it and it's just going in a landfill otherwise.