[TriLUG] vonage behind nat

[David Rasch]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:31:28PM -0500, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> On Thu, March 3, 2005 3:55 pm, Wing D Lizard said:
> > Does Vonage work behind a NAT?  I'm wondering if I can plug the device
> > into my home network.  Does it require any special settings ( some web
> > pages say 'it just works' and other say you need to forward some
> > ports)?
> >
> > Has anybody tried taking the adaptor to a hotel that has broadband?
> >
> > thanks
> > b\375
> >
> 
> I have heard the if you put vonage in front of everything so that it
> has the public address and then everything else is behind the vonage
> box, that it can then handle QOS better.  But it is supposed to work
> behind nat as well. Obviously if you are nated behind a firewall that
> is blocking the required ports then you will be out of luck if you
> can't poke the proper holes through.

Vonage works just fine behind a firewall.  I setup QoS on my firewall to
ensure high-quality calls, but it worked pretty well even before I did
that.  The only time it suffered was when someone was downloading
something at full speed or uploading something (uploading would pretty
much kill the call).

-David
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