Hi all, long time lurker but first time poster, I just happen to be in a bind and could use a little inspiration...

My client is on a 7200s, and has remote regional sales reps throughout the US, whom we set up with i5220s. We drop shipped the phones to the sales reps and they were instructed not to use the phones until training was completed (yeah right!)

So now I have one user who received there phone and after forwarding 6000 on their modem, the phone seems to be working. The problem is the phone drops calls intermittently and reboots itself frequently. At first I thought it was because her Westell DSL modem was dropping the connection, but that would really only explain a "connecting to server" status not a full reboot. I found out that when the phone was received, the husband attempted to plug a live phone line cord into the LAN port!!!

That last little bit is the only thing I can think of that would lead to a condition like this but I need something concrete or at least some affirmation.

Thanks for your help.

Putting a RJ 12 plug into a RJ 45 socket is sometimes can damage the pins. If it is using POE this could be the issue as pins 1 & 8 are generally the ones that bend back in the RJ45 socket.

Sounds like it is definitely a power issue.

POE uses pins 4&5 for positive and your customer has had DC line voltage across there and probably ring voltage. So the phone could be damaged but you would expect the phone not to work at all if that were the case.

Why do yo need to forward a port a the remote IP phone site?

Either way you need to get the thing back and look at it yourself.

You got me on that one... All I know is when the phone registered it was pulling ports like 50006 and 50065. I remoted in and forwarded the port, reregistered the phone and it began using 6000. 9000 was never an issue...

I was afraid that a power issue was what we were looking at, obviously the phone has problems.

I appreciate your help.