Vonage

Mine never looses connectivity. i have a DLINK G band router, Vonage, XBOX360, PS3, A Mini, Macbook, and a dell laptop and Tivo all hooked up with max bandwidth usage. still no problems...yet. Netgear is where your going wrong. They WILL work with Macs, but there is no support for them. DLINK, and APPLE branded routers. even a linksys has apple support for connection.. ...

I am using a Vonage internet phone connection for faxing and was told to try to reduce the baud rate to prevent drop outs during fax connections. ...

I feel rather foolish asking this, but I've tried everything I could think of at this point. I'm a newbie to Macintosh, but am fairly UNIX savvy. I recently purchased an iBook G4 (OSX 10.3.9) and Powerbook G4 (OSX 10.4.7). My network is a SA Webstar Cable modem connected to a Linksys RT31P2 router (for Vonage) which is connected to a Belkin Wireless 54G access point. All...

but if there's no Vonage packet activity, then nothing should slow down. ...

I don't think that the Vonage router will limit anything on the LAN, only on the WAN. Correct me if I'm wrong. ...

Vonage is the culprit here... I would put a hub/switch between ....so cable modem --> hub --- vonage |->mac |->NAS device Vonage will appropriate as much pipe as it thinks it needs slowing the rest of your network. with a hub (I recommend a switch) your ftp speeds and everything else will improve.

Cable modem going into Vonage box. ...

But, hey, it's just great that Vonage calls don't sound like ... well, I can't think of anything that sounds that bad. ...

I use a NetGear router; but, have configured other manufactures routers - including a Linksys with Vonage. The latter was not configured by me for P2P'ing; but, for voice over IP, etc. With regards to your internet connection loss ... as per 'How to set up a static IP address on a Mac OS X v10.4.'s last line of text ... 'That's it you should be done! If you can't connect...

'From what I have been reading about the base station it should be possible to link it to an ethernet network while the Netgear has autosensing ports. Any views on this?', I have connected an (original) Apple Airport Base Station, and then replaced it with a wireless 'b' LinkSys router, to a wired Vonage VoIP LinkSys router - and a wireless based PowerBook accesses the...