Well I now have an Linksys SPA9000 PBX (firmware 6.15). And I am going to try to make some notes to help others. First of all, there is a LOT of information on the internet that is wrong with the latest versions of the firmware. It is not hard or complicated to get up and running with the SPA9000 but you can do some really complicated things with it.
What hardware do I have?
I have a Billion 7404 modem router (firmware 5.73), I connect to 2 providers, one being IINET and some DECT phones.
Configuration
First of all I would recommend getting a SysLog Server on your PC. I recommend SysLog Watcher Personal Edition, its free and quite a good interface. This will mean you can see what's happening on the SPA9000 if things go wrong. This is
Billion 7404
There is a lot of stuff on the web about ports/firewall changes and complicated things like that. The fact is you just need to turn off VOIP. To do this you access the VOIP web configuration and disable SIP under general settings.
I also went into Advanced and switched the VOIP from WAN to LAN but I have no reason why, really just belt and braces.
SPA9000
I used the configuration wizard which runs on your PC. This is a download from Cisco and very easy to use. It allows you to setup one Line, configure the network and any clients. Once through the wizard, all I had to do was dial 9 to get an outside line and could make phone calls.
Advanced Additions
I have now setup the SPA with the fax using the second line and XLite on my computer as an extension. I used the web administration for this and the cisco manual.
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