dish network and vonage..

Posts: 19 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 19

My friend at work has the dish network reciver 522, is there any way of getting this to work with Vonage? I know my TIVO i can change the way the phone dials out, but i think for Dish Network, you cannot do this....

RB

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 1

I finally broke down and added a fax line to my Vonage account (+$9.99/month) so that I could fax from home. My fax machine (Brother MFC420CN) worked without a problem using the RCA Wireless Phone Jack System. I decided to try my DishNetwork 501 series receiver and it worked also.

My guess is that the fax line quality must be much better than the regular voice line. I suspect that using the RCA wireless jack throttled the modem speed to 9600. I will run a network monitor on my LAN to check the saturation (some day).

So at about $37/month is still 1/2 the price of SWB POTS line.

Good luck.

Posts: 23 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Apr 03, 2005 Posts: 23

Actually I've had no problems with my Dish 508's since I changed the settings to have a prefix code *99 and set wireless jack option. Thats using Vonage service set at medium quality.

I haven't checked today since last night I had to set my Vonage down to 30k because Comcast doesn't guarantee any speed on upload. I've had my 6mbit internet not be able to handle 56k upload speeds.

Good luck
James