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TPG Voip Settings for Linksys SPA3102

Long time, no posts. Been quite busy with end of uni semmester & etc, plus been postin a bit on facebook.

Anyway…

Given that TPG have recently enabled ADSL2+ in our local exchange, we decided that it would be a good idea to make the move away from Netspace. Basically we will be getting double the speed and a similar quota for about half the price.

Anyway, we have for some time now been making use of VoIP for all of our phone calls (resulting in quite a considerable saving) through the use of a Linksys SPA 3102 ATA.

Upon reading the fine print for TPG it seemes that in order to make use of their "VoIP" plans, one must purchase their pre-configured VoIP ATA.. What a scam. Furthermore, upon registering on their site for "Softphone Voip", it seems that they don’t actually give out the settings for manually configuring you own VoIP gear. What a pain. I then decided to install the soft phone anyway and just have a look at what settings it came preconfigured with. The problem is that TPG are actually trying to be sneaky and their softphone is actually a standalone executable with which you just shove the username and password and then go. No configuration avaliable or user editable…

Furthermore none of the settings that I found on sites like Whirlpool gave me any success.

Anyway, after jumping on our router and having a look at all of the outgoing traffic, I found the following settings.

Proxy Server Address: gphone1.tpg.com.au
Use Outbound Proxy set to No
UserID: User Id given in sign up email (Same as per the instructions for setting up the TPG softphone.)
Pasword: Normal TPG User Account password

And finally, upon testing these on our ATA they worked fine.