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Vonage & Gaming

DasFox

DasFox

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I just got off the phone with Vonage, you don't need to keep your local residental phone service, Vonage will give you a new phone line, so this is really cheaper and I have been considering dumping my local service and getting Vonage's Basic 500 plan at $14.99.

I'm needing a hardware router/firewall upgrade, so I need VOIP support on it. I figure I'll go with Vonage down the road, unless someone knows a better deal then them.

I figure I'll get the VTech IP8100-2 package, which my understanding is, that it's wireless for the phones, but a CAT5 cable plugged in, not wireless for the broadband side of it.

But for the most important is, I'm a gamer, hardcore all the way, built a killer SLI rig, and for all the time and money I put into this online lag I don't want because some hardware is choking the connection. Is this Vonage going to effect my connection at all for online gaming? If so then I'm not going to bother with it.

THANKS
 
depends on connection/hardware.. if u have at least 500kbps up and down u should be fine... just make sure u dont buy the vonage routers because those give priority to voice packets

u should be fine games dont require that much bandwidth and voip only needs i think 100kbps up and down and ping should not be affected much...
 
I have a Vonage Linksys PAP modem that is connected through my SBS 2003 Server. Since I'm running Microsoft's ISA Server 2004 (an advanced firewall/proxy/monitoring server), I can continuously monitor the traffic from each of my computers and from the Linksys/Vonage modem.

I can tell you that, at this moment, there's zilch traffic from the Linksys. Obviously, during a phone call, that would change.

I just did a download of a file from Microsoft's Download Site and measured the bytes/second passing through my ISA.
Then I made a phone call through Vonage and measured the bytes/second.

Results:
Download: 1,600,000 Bytes/second
Phone call: 40,000 Bytes/second.
Background traffic: 200-1000 Bytes/second.

The traffic during the phone call is constant whether anybody is talking or not.
 
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