how xbox 360 works with vonage phone adapters?

Posts: 23 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Nov 28, 2006 Posts: 23

quick question, how does xbox 360 or ps2 devices work with Vonage phone adapters?
for example i'm using my xbox 360 and i have sort of a phone/headset that is connected to my xbox that is also attached to my phone adapter, linksys RT31P2. so i'm playing while i'm talking over the phone. sort of like online gaming. and i only have the basic 500 plan with 500 mins. will it be taken out of my 500 mins? will i be charged for those calls? thanks. i'd be grateful for immediate feedback.

thanks so much.. Very Happy

Posts: 60 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 60

If it dials a number, which I suspect it is, then yes you will charged for those minutes you talk. It is a normal call and will be billed as such.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 06, 2007 Posts: 2

have the xbox360 plugged into the phone adapter. can play online but certain people, i cannot hear through voice chat. one setting on xbox for NAT says medium and it should say open. can i get into the router to change port forwarding and how.

Posts: 60 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 60

Don't know anything about the Xbox360 so I can't speak to that. Depending on which router/model you have you should be able to change port forwarding.

As for how, tell us which router you have and we can attempt to help you through port forwarding.

If you can hear some people fine but not others - I would have them check their settings. There should be no reason why conversations or chats with some works and with others it does not unless they are not setup correctly. We can't help them, only you.

So give me some more information and I'll see how much I can help.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 06, 2007 Posts: 2

Vonage router model is RT31P2

Posts: 60 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 60

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. If you got the router from Vonage, you probably can't get into the router to change any configs. that's why it's always best to buy the phone adapter on your own.

Anyway, assuming you can get it to it, try opening a browser to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.15.1 ... both or one should work.
Go to the Applications and Gaming tab, and select an application for your xbox, if it's listed. If not, you mayhave to manually add it.

You will then need to go into the DMZ part of that section and enable DMZ, but you will need to define an address for your xBox... do this from the xBox and then enter the address you defined in the DMZ tab.

If you do not know anything about DHCP or static addresses, I would not recommend doing anything, because you could screw up your xBox. You need to define an IP address for your xBox so that the router knows where to send the packets coming in from the internet meant to go to your xBox. If you have not defined an addrss, this could be the cause of your problems to begin with.

I don't know anything about the xBox, and I'm sure I've left you more stumped than before, but I'm trying to help. There are a lot of variables I just don't know about the xBox.

Let me know if I've totally confused you and if there are any other xBox folks out there who know more about this, feel free to jump in.