Questions for Vonage users....

[faZZter]

Ok I decided to get in on this Vonage startup deal at CC. Hooked up the phone adapter to the DSL modem, then router afterwards. Signed up for my account and it seems to work just fine. Only thing is I had to move my wireless phone base to another room that is not the preferred place to have it. I would rather have it where it originally was in the living room of our house.

Anyway, it seems you can connect the phone adapter after the router if you do some port forwarding. So the question is.....have any of you hooked up this way and if so how does it work out? Are the phone calls just as good? It says in the manuals that having the phone adapter first lets it give priority to voice call traffic.

Also if I do move it to the living room again it will connect through a Linksys WET11. I have 3 or 4 of them around the house already, do you think it will interfere with the phone adapter somehow? (it is a 900 MHz phone)

Thanx for any info......

 

[orakle]

Not sure if you can do it from behind the router but I don't see why not if you can forward the ports. I also don't see why the 802.11 bridge would cause problems with your 900mhz phone, as 802.11b/g run at 2.4ghz.

 

[faZZter]

Yeah it probably wouldn't interfere......maybe I'll try hooking it up that way tomorrow.

Anyone have any actual experiences with the phone call quality in a hookup behind the router?

 

[thirdlegstump]

Was pretty easy. Just gotta set the WAN ip of the Vonage adapter with a static ip with the same network as the linksys and fwd the right ports for that ip in the linksys. Make sure you connect the cat 5 from the Vonage WAN to the linksys switched ports. Without port fwding, you can only make outgoing calls and won't be able to receive calls.

 

[faZZter]

Ok thanx for advice....