Vonage phone via cable modem

Can anyone help me? I recently purchased the Vonage phone adapter which I currently am running directly to my macs computer port via ethernet. This totally cuts out the use of my airport and I would really like to get back to using it. Does anyone know how to go about hooking this up?

Current set up: Cable Modem>Vonage adapter>Phone Line> Vonage Adapter>Ethernet cable >Computer

T.I.A.
Cdaleyart

G 4 Titanium Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 20, 2006 3:26 AM

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Aug 20, 2006 7:04 PM in response to Cher Daley

I have this setup and it works quite well.

Cable box output goes to the Vonage box. My Vonage is built into what is essentially a Linksys router with a phone jack. Take the ethernet from one of the Vonage box output jacks to the IN ethernet ( WAN ) jack on the Airport. I then have my Airport output ethernet jack (LAN) back out to my desktop Mac.

Having it setup this way lets the voice traffic have the best shot at getting the bandwidth it needs from the cable. The computers, where a little hiccup is less noticeable get the rest.

The Vonage phone jack I hooked up to a phone splitter so that one goes to the phone on my desk and the other goes into the telephone wall jack. Since I disconnected the phone company connection at the outside box, the phone wiring in my house is all connected to my Vonage and all the wired phones in the house work.

Good luck.

Aug 25, 2006 6:04 AM in response to Cher Daley

Isn't the whole purpose of going wireless NOT to have any cables connected to your computer?


The recommendation I posted does not have any cables going to any computers.

Unless I'm missing something, u r routing the ethernt cable back to your computer!


It appears that sailorscott has 2 computers. One desktop which connects via Ethernet and a laptop that connects wirelessly.

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