I have an Airport router happily managing my wife's windows desktop and my Apple MacBook (I bought the Apple router after finding a Linksys router didn't serve the Apple well). I ordered Vonage last week, based on the saleman's assurance that I could connect the Vonage router to the Airport router, and am awaiting delivery of the Vonage package.
After reading a few other discussions here, I'm wondering a) is the saleman's assurance true, and b) is it better to connect the Vonage device to the working Airport router, or run the cable to the Vonage router first, then connect the Airport router to that (or does the sequence matter?)?
In general, putting the Vonage router first assures that the phone gets bandwidth priority, which is what you want to avoid choppy calls. The downside is that the Vonage boxes are so-so routers, and they can get bogged down if you try to route heavy internet activity through them.
You avoid that problem if you put a good router ahead of the Vonage box, but then you can get poor phone service unless the first router has good QoS capability and is set up to favor the Vonage box. It's the recommended configuration if the good router has good QoS.
There have been a number of threads concerning the Airport. A search should turn up some specifics.
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