My parents have Vonage for home phone service. I used to have them but after having a device fail and finding out that there contract is a scam, along with using persuasion over the phone I got them to cancel my service. So I switched to Broadvoice and brought my own device under the BYOD - Lite plan and upgraded to there unlimited USA plan. I configured 3CX PBX on a Windows 2003 server with a Intel Xeon 3.06 ghz CPU and 4gb of ram. Server is a Dell Power Edge 2650. Anyways the server is not the issue.
So in the last week I noticed my call quality was going down the drain, So I chalked it up to poor internet. But when I called Comcast they told me my lines are in perfect condition, and are above everyone else. In fact the techs that come out say the same thing and show me the results. It hadn't resolved it self, so on to the next phase of testing. When I logged in to the router I noticed vonage pushed a new update to the device. Something that was working fine for the past 2-3 years. And with the new update it over wrote alot of my settings, So I reset them all to what they should be.
Now the issue is the router is now forciablly closing 3/4 of the ports for VOIP calls, So now I experiance dropped calls, one way audio, poor audio connections. Also since this update my interent has slowed WAY down.
This is my new test
And a month old speed test, about what it has always ran at.
When I do a direct connection my speed goes back to where it should be and my PBX works fine. But the router is screwing up, and I don't want to replace it knowing that my parents will be bound into an additional 1 year contract.
So I guess one of my questions is, What would you guys recommend for a router? All I need is some thing that handles NAT and Port Fowarding. I turn DHCP off on the router as one of my servers handles it. And another question is, what are the ports that vonage uses for the phone service? So I can port foward them through a router to let there device sit and just handle the phone and not try and obstruct my network any more.
SUMMERY ---
Vonage Adapter seems to be failing. New update kills internet to a SLOW speed, Along with breaking my PBX/Phone Connection. Looking at replacing the router (suggestions), and also need to know ports used by Vonage phone system.
Edited by amw_drizz, 19 June 2010 - 07:10 PM.
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