Vonage and Internet speed drop

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: QOS

cobra2225 wrote:

NateHoy wrote:

cobra2225 wrote:

so i leave the QOS box checked in windows?

Frankly, I'd turn that off. Windows doesn't do anything with QoS from what I've been able to gather.

ok, i'll turn it off and see what happens,
personally i'm beginning to think it's a Vonage problem
not a customer config problem.

I'd beg to differ on this... The little PAP2, even running 2 simultaneous phone calls at full-throttle shouldn't be able to saturate a decent broadband connection.

When was the last time you reset your WRT54G? Now would be a good time to give it a power cycle. How old is the hub? If it's more than a few years old, replace it. They DO go bad from improper grounding and static electricity after awhile. Unless you're packet sniffing with Ethereal, I'd suggest replacing it with a switch for better performance.

FWIW, the QoS you see inside Windows has no real use unless you're working on a corporate LAN where they're using the server to balance the LAN traffic at the workstation level, but I've never seen this done in practice.

Posts: 13 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 21, 2006 Posts: 13

Ok... my system is up and running just as it used to be... meaning my speeds are back to normal. All I did was to disable port range forwarding on all but Phone 4 (ports 10000-20000 UDP IPADDRESS Enabled All seems to be well.

Yes, I have a Netgear HUB... I think there have been so many router threads people have router on the brain.

Many thanks for all the help and suggestions. I'll still try moving the PAP2 to a direct connection to the WRT54G sometime in the future.
Thanks,
El Guapo