Vonage in a network environment

[LuckyTaxi]

Looking to get Vonage for our office. I assume it's just a matter of hooking the phone adapter they send into one of our current switches and then enable port forwarding at the firewall?

 

[Goosemaster]

You'll probably need bandwidth management to throttle your network to accomadate the needs of VoIP.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

It's just for one phone.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: lilcam
It's just for one phone.

Still, you need to make sure that it will have priority over anywthing else. A few broadcasts or some file sharing might kill the quality of the signal.

I know that one of netgears routers (very cheap) supports part of the 802.11e VoIP traffic priortization, but that probably isn;t an option.

EDIT:

Then again, how busy is your network on a regular basis and what kind of line do you have?

Also, what kind of rotuer/equipment do you use?


I could just tell you to "f$*& it" and plug it in, that is, if you won't hold me responsible😉 For all i know, your network could be pegged at 90% utilization🙂