Can't hear person on other end after 16 mins

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 6

QOS is supported on the Linksys wrt54gs router
and works well with the new firmware.

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 7

I actually have my network setup this way now because, when my RT31P2 was in front of my WRT54G, I would have to pull the power and plug it back in daily, or I would lose connectivity to the internet (everyday). This got very irritating, especially when my wife would call me and say the "stupid *#&$(#* phone and internet are not working AGAIN!!!". So I put my WRT54G in front of my RT31P2 and have since had no problems, actually my network has been much more stable since doing so. I have changed my firmware on my WRT54G to the latest Sveasoft firmware and the QOS capabilities of this firmware seem to work very well. I have had better call quality with this setup than I ever had with the RT31P2 in front. Also, I dont like not having control of what is happening to my router that connects me to the internet. With the RT31P2 in front of everything, Vonage could upgrade my firmware at any point in time and that could affect everything behind it, now at least I have control of my internet access and the only thing that would be affected is my phone service if they were to do this. Maybe I am just being paranoid, but I have been working in the IT field as a network/server administrator for over 10 years and I know the types of things that go on and I want to make sure that I am protected.

In addition, I have a few websites that I run and I have found the port forwarding on the WRT54G to be much more reliable than the port forwarding on the RT31P2 phone adapter.

Thx-

J.R.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 05, 2005 Posts: 16

Well I opened ports 5060-5061 and 10000-20000 on my RT31P2 and the problem has seemed to disappear. We will see how it goes from here.

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 29, 2005 Posts: 20

janthony - thank you for your explanation. that's the answer i was looking for.

-Steve

Posts: 18 · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject:

lsdean -- That is good news. I have not made a good test yet.

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I opened ports 5060-5061 and 10000-20000 on my RT31P2

I hope you mean "to my RT31P2". You need the ports opened on the router feeding the RT31P2.

Thanks for the info.

David

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 05, 2005 Posts: 16

David, so did you add the port info in the Applications & Gaming menu on your RT or NetGear router? Just verifying. Thanks

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 05, 2005 Posts: 16

I think I had it wrong. I originally made the changes to my RT. They problem showed up again. I have since made the changes to my WRT54G and had a 40 mintue outgoing call. We will see what happens tomorrow.

Posts: 102 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 102

yeah i had this happen one day last week and it ws only on one day. the calls would drop.. i dont rememebr if it was a set time or not.

i have the rt behind a wrt54gs and i have comcast service. i have a linky router as well as linky phone adapter and modem. im in atlanta.

it has only happend that one day so before i open up any ports ill see if this happens again and note what is going on at the time...

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 7

I made the decribed changes to my WRT54G router on Tuesday and the problem has seemingly gone away. I will continue to monitor. This still leaves me wondering what changed on the Vonage side to make this start happening. I had everything configured this way for quite a while with no problem and then all of the sudden it started. Something had to change.

J.R.

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:09 am Post subject:

janthony wrote:

This still leaves me wondering what changed on the Vonage side to make this start happening.

Dont rule out changes by your ISP either.. I see a lot of these problems occuring mostly for people with Comcast as an ISP.