Well, hang on tight...
Got our equipment in the mail the other day, and other than the pain in the ass of having to hook a machine directly to it to accesss 192.168.15.1, the setup was relatively simple. For the sake of reference, it's added just like a system on my network. The WAP, 4 machines, and now the vonage base unit feed into an 8 port switch which feeds into the router. So we start using it right off, and it's hit and miss on quality. So I move the base unit as far away from the wireless AP as possible - not much change. There's typically a HORRID lag, and 3/5 calls the person on the other end of the call says my audio is choppy as hell. So, I'm afraid my proverbial "pipe" is likely full, and will probably have to find a new home for my servers. Best to start a thread in the right forum, but i'll be asking for colo spam soon. I like having the machines right here in front of me at all times, in case of trouble (even though it means paying commercial cable rates to be able to use SMTP ports without violating their AUP) but if the network traffic here is just way too heavy to allow Vonage to work well... well then I guess I have to do *something*...
On a side note, i went digging around vonage-forums.com and found it was like 500 pages of problem after complaint after problem
I did run some tests and found a few AT&T routers in the stream (I'm on InsightBB) that were pretty damn lossy. So, in the end, I don't even know if moving the servers into colo will do much to solve the shitty audio problems or not!
Rambling already... I'll stop
hehe, thanks for the vent...
GobGook