Vonage connected before the third party router or after?

Posts: 64 · Full Forum Member Joined: Sep 26, 2008 Posts: 64

This inquiry is particularly geared towards the experts in this forum. Research and consensus is the motivation. It will also be informative to many vonage users out there. Any input is greatly appreciated! Much thanks!

Posts: 292 · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject:

I have my setup Cable Modem->Vonage Router->Linksys Router->2 computers. I have had no problems at all with this setup. No need to reboot routers. No slowdown of downloads or uploads. Occasionally have to reboot CPUs but that I am sure is a Windows problem.

Posts: 1178 · Member of the Week Joined: Feb 28, 2005 Posts: 1178

Slyster,

If you do a search on the forums, you will find a split b/w those who are heavy bandwidth users and those who are light bandwidth users. For those who are heavy bandwidth users like P2P and BitTorrent etc, they all claim that the router portions of the vonage devices are insufficient for their needs. So they believe and through actual trial and error have found that using 3rd part routers with aftermarket firmware seems to provide a stable environment for them to use vonage and run other software. So for heavy bandwidth users they prefer modem -> third party router -> vonage device.

For light bandwidth users, I have heard nothing bad about the standard modem -> vonage device -> third part router.

I for one used this light bandwidth approach for many years without significant issue.

So if you want "expert" advice, i.e. those who are heavy bandwidth users will tell you to put the third party router in front of the vonage device. But the final answer depends on how much bandwidth you actually use.

hope this helps.

btw, i'm not sure what exactly you mean by expert so I took a guess.

Posts: 64 · Full Forum Member Joined: Sep 26, 2008 Posts: 64

Thanks Guys, have my opinions as well and do agree about the "light" versus "heavy" bandwidth users for the network arrangement.