Linksys PAP2 - 10 or 100 Mbps?

Posts: 17 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 17

I'm a new Vonage customer and, to make a long story short, the datasheet on the PAP2 says it has One 10/100 RJ-45 Network Port, but appears to only connect to my network [SMC router or Linksys workgroup switch] at 10 Mbps. I've swapped network cables, ports, etc. but no go. I know it's not my router since all my other equipment runs at 100 Mbps with all various cable and port combinations. Confuse

Since we can't access the PAP2, I contacted Vonage customer service today asking that they review my adapter config and was initially told by the rep that the device was "capped" at 10 Mbps. Since this didn't seem to make sense, I asked to speak with a supervisor but what I think I wound up with was either another service rep or their 2nd level of support. This person at least did appear to review my PAP2 config and told me it was set to "Auto". I asked that it be changed to 100 explicitly but he told me that was not an availalbe option. He didn't have an explanation as to why it wasn't connecting at 100 Mbps; his only answer was it should work fine at 10.
Confused

Having had enough of frustration with international tech support, I gave up. Brick wall

I'd be interested in anyone's experience or suggestions with this device.

TIA.

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Posts: 19

RA695 wrote:

I'm a new Vonage customer and, to make a long story short, the datasheet on the PAP2 says it has One 10/100 RJ-45 Network Port, but appears to only connect to my network [SMC router or Linksys workgroup switch] at 10 Mbps. I've swapped network cables, ports, etc. but no go. I know it's not my router since all my other equipment runs at 100 Mbps with all various cable and port combinations. Confuse

Since we can't access the PAP2, I contacted Vonage customer service today asking that they review my adapter config and was initially told by the rep that the device was "capped" at 10 Mbps. Since this didn't seem to

Assuming you had 2 lines running into your TA, and made a 3-way call from each line, the maximum bandwidth you could possibly consume using the G.711 codec with the worst opimization possible is 130kbps x 4 sessions. So a grand total of about 520kbps.

Since Ethernet starts to run crappy beyond say, 70% line utilization, lets say your true effective throughput is 7000kbps. At full throttle you are still only using under 7.5% of your effective throughput at 10Mbps.

Getting your Linksys to link up at 100meg will produce no benefit other than the pscyhological happiness derived from seeing a green light on your switch instead of orange.

Posts: 227 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Dec 10, 2004 Posts: 227

Everything that I've read says that the PAP2 is set to 10MBPS. I'm on a Gigabit backbone in my home office and my PAP2 is running at 10. As espaeth states, you won't come close to capping your 10MB nor would you really see a benefit opening it up to 100.

Posts: 79 · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:49 am Post subject:

YEA, WHAT THEY SAID!!!!

Posts: 22 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 02, 2004 Posts: 22

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Assuming you had 2 lines running into your TA, and made a 3-way call from each line, the maximum bandwidth you could possibly consume using the G.711 codec with the worst opimization possible is 130kbps x 4 sessions. So a grand total of about 520kbps.

Why would making a 3 way call have any impact on bandwidth usage? You're still using just one of the RJ11 ports.
I can see making two simultaneous calls, one on each port, would double your bandwidth usage but it makes no sense that a 3 way call would use more bandwidth than a regular 2 way call. You're not sending more data to the phone just because it's a 3-way.
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Posts: 19

schmidtj wrote:

Why would making a 3 way call have any impact on bandwidth usage?

Each leg of the phone call is maintained as a separate RTP stream. VoIP is a little more decentralized than the traditional PSTN network. When do do a 3 way call, you are essentially establishing a 2nd phone call and your TA is bridging the 2 calls together at your end.

Posts: 22 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 02, 2004 Posts: 22

Thanks.