How can such a large company have something so simple as SIP
registration mangled up?

Very little incentive to fix it. The number of customers that are able to switch providers when something like this doesn't work is a fractional percentage of overall customer churn. 

The MBAs say it's cheaper to ignore it, so that's how it goes.  

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:38 AM Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
How can such a large company have something so simple as SIP
registration mangled up?

On 9/10/24 5:22 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> We've just moved to tunneling anything VoIP if on Comcast's network.
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> *From: *"Matt Hoppes" <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net>
> *To: *nanog@nanog.org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 10, 2024 2:17:37 PM
> *Subject: *Third Party VoIP Over Xfinity
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> I have an employee who has recently switched to Xfinity cable service.
> Ever since they switched their internet service their work phones will
> not stay registered for more than about 3 minutes.
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> These same phones have been used on many ISPs without issues.  The same
> config has been used behind multiple levels of NAT without issues.
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> She was fine, until she switched to XFinity.
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> Of course, XFinity support is absolutely worthless.
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> Anyone from XFinity Tier 3 or such that might be able to offer assistance?
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> I suspect it's something stupid with either NAT overload in the modem or
> the modem not keeping the SIP channels open.
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> I've tried playing around with registration times without any success.
> And again, we've never had issues with these phones or this setup with
> any other ISP.
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