Hi, I have been reading quite a few threads here and on dslreports about Vonage & installation behind a router. I ordered and received the Motorola VT1005v phone adapter from Vonage on Monday. I was able to hook up it and have it working in a few mins according to the manual. Over the next 12 hrs, i had 2-3 network outages so i decided to move the ATA behind the linksys router. Now this is where i am still stuck at, though i have tried pretty much everything suggested on this forum.
- Connected the incoming network to ATA WAN port and connected the deskstop to the ATA PC port. I was able to access the motorola config page & set a static ip of 192.168.1.5 - Disconnected everything and moved the ATA to one of the LAN ports on the router(BEFSR41). 2 other deskstops take up ports 1 & 2. Accessed the Linksys page and this is all i see:
DHCP Active IP Table DHCP Server IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Client Hostname IP Address MAC Address PC1 192.168.1.2 00-01-80-4A-87-88 PC2 192.168.1.3 00-C0-F0-6D-81-CF
From some reason, i do not see my phone adapter device listed on the list of DHCP clients. Some other settings on the router:
- Starting ip address of 192.168.1.1 - Number of DHCP users = 10 - Client lease time = 34463 - Block WAN Request: Disable - Multicast Pass Through: Enable - IPSec Pass Through: Enable - MTU: Enable Size: 1500
I have also tried port forwarding to the ATA ip address(initially had it as 192.168.1.50). I am not sure about port triggering as suggested here because i do not find a place to specify ip address in the triggering page. Only the triggering port and incoming port ranges. How does this actually get forwarded to the ata ip address ?
Please tell me where i am going wrong here. If this works, i'll be so happy to be free of comcast ! I also have a Directivo which needs a phone line but i've read that Vonage can be made to work.
I have a suggestion for you. Put your ATA back in front of your Linksys router, but before you do that disable NAT/DHCP and port forwarding on the ATA. This will put the ATA in passthrough mode and all the DHCP, NAT, and port forwarding will be handled by the Linksys router. My ATA stop freezing after I did this.
I have a suggestion for you. Put your ATA back in front of your Linksys router, but before you do that disable NAT/DHCP and port forwarding on the ATA. This will put the ATA in passthrough mode and all the DHCP, NAT, and port forwarding will be handled by the Linksys router. My ATA stop freezing after I did this.
Did this have any effect on your up/dl speed on your computer?
Did this have any effect on your up/dl speed on your computer?
No, it did not change at all my up/dl speeds. Now if I am on the phone and uploading/downloading from the Internet, the ATA will do QoS and will give priority to the voice packets. That is exactly what I want, no more echoes or choppy calls.
txcas: Many of us have tried the passthrough/no Nat mode without success. In fact, there is a post from jaeger in the last day describing the typical problem: Once you reboot with the ATA in front with NAT disabled everything dies. In my own case, I either couldn't get an ip address using dhcp for my linux box/wireless router, or I could only get things to work for a few minutes.
There was a long thread about this about a month ago. I wish there was a way to troubleshoot this. I suspect there is something about your setup (and the few others who have gotten passthrough to work) that differs from all the others who haven't had any luck. (Network card parameters? ATA firmware? something)
1) Since you gave your ATA a static IP address, it is not using DHCP from your router, whcih is why you can't see it on that page. DHCP only shows devices which have requested an assigned IP address. Static IP addresses aren't assigned by the router, so no record of them.
2) I have a Linksys router with my ATA behind it, and all I did was use Port Forwarding. The only ports I forwarded were 5060-5063. Just forward those to 192.168.1.5 (select UDP only).
Leave your ATA behind the router and set up port forwarding, don't worry about triggering.
One more note. You might want to give your ATA an address farther away from the addresses your router will be handing out. Since your ATA isn't using DHCP, the lInksys doesn't know not to give out .5 as an address. Change it to .101 (your router is probably configured to never give out more than 50 IP addresses anyway, so it will never go beyond .51.
Did you use static ip for your ATA when you put it behind the router ? I do remember setting the ATA to dynamic(acquire ip automatically) but even then it did not show up on the DHCP table. I tried putting back the ATA and disabling NAT/DHCP but the network problems are still there. I've had outages atleast 2-3 times a day in past few days. I need to do something pretty soon or have to go back to comcast. So, is this what you are suggesting ?
- Assign a static ip to ATA which is not in the range served by router. - Forward the ports in router to that ip - any other settings in either the ATA config or router ?
1. Assign a static IP address to your ATA (192.168.1.101 based on the info you've given above). (Just to make sure, to do this, you'll set the address to 192.168.1.101, the mask to 255.255.255.0, the gateway to 192.168.1.1, set the DNS to 192.168.1.1)
2. Forward UDP ports 5060 - 5063 to 192.168.1.101 and enable that forwarding.
3. Power cycle everything. Bring them up in this order: modem, router, PC 1, ATA.
After a few minutes, check to see that you have dial tone, and can make and receive calls. Check again every couple of hours just to make sure you stayed connected.
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