Port forwarding for Vonage

[RogueSpear]

I can't believe how difficult this is to find, but I haven't found anything definitive yet and I don't want to experiment. Screwing around with my phone service tends to lead to domestic problems between me and the Mrs. What ports do I need to forward for Vonage? Currently I have my Vonage adapter in the DMZ of my router as that seems to alleviate intermittent connections issues. The problem is that I really need to keep one of my computers in the DMZ. Also if you find a good resource for everything Vonage, that would be even better.

[rendrag]

ever try http://www.vonage-forum.com/

[RogueSpear]

I poked around on there for a short while after posting this. I can't believe I didn't find it earlier either I don't know if this is the norm or if they are having difficulties, but it feels like I'm on a 300 baud modem with that site. And everytime I try a search, it times out on me.

EDIT: There was definately something wrong earlier and I must have been getting a "Lo Fi" version or something. This certainly does look like the definitive source for all that is Vonage. Thanks for the link though

Edited March 9, 2006 by RogueSpear

[mephitic]

I've got Vonage and a Linksys router. I don't have any ports forwarded to my Vonage box. Just plugged directly into the router. I don't have any problems with calls (unless I'm downloading stuff and maxing out the connection).

MePH

[RogueSpear]

Yea the first week I had service, I had no special setup at all. It was just plugged right into the back of my router. That must have been the honeymoon period for me. After about a week, it stopped working. I went to the Vonage web site and sure enough there was an announcement that there were problems "with a local carrier" and that they were attempting to resolve it ASAP. I guess they didn't want to embarass the local carrier.

Well the next day it was still down, yet the web site had no indication of problems. Figuring the PAP2 device is really just a specialized computer all it's own, I rebooted it. Still nothing. Then I put the PAP2 into the DMZ. Suddenly I had service again. I'm going to give it another go at some point in time without any forwarding (or in the DMZ) and see what sort of results I get.

I'm just afriad of having another outage and not knowing about it for a day or two. I guess if that happens the port forwarding will end up being a permanent solution.