Newbie questions

[jwash]

A couple of questions....
I'm supposed to have porting finalized today. I have my existing landline hooked up to an old wired phone and my cordless base station hooked up to the voipo ATA. I'm assuming that when porting is complete my cordless phone will ring when I do a test call from my cell to my home number. Is that accurate? I'm asking because I expected porting to be finalized earlier today - I'm assuming that if the cordless rings with test call, then all is well - but if it doesn't - how do you know if something went wrong or the porting just hasn't completed yet?

Also - my setup is this - Mediacom cable to RCA DCM305 modem WAN to
Grandstream HT502 WAN. Then Grandstream LAN to Netgear WGT62A WAN So far calls out are fine soundwise, but there is a 10 - 25 second delay between dialing last number and hearing the other person's dialtone. I've read the forums and sent in a service request about that cause it will be a deal breaker I suspect. We're way too impatient for that.

My other question is -- I''ve read on the forums that some people use an alternate hookup (modem WAN to router WAN, then to VOipo adapter LAN. Can someone explain why you would use this alternate setup? I noticed that it is not mentioned in the written instructions I got, so just curious as to the advantages / disadvantages of both setups.

If anyone answers please go easy on the acronyms -- I need a legend to read these forums.

thanks!