At 04:30 PM 2/13/2005, you wrote:
> > >It wasn't really a big deal to fix. I would been a
> > >little miffed if I had to spend $20 to get Vonage
> > >working with Cox, as Vonage supports Cox.
> > >
> > >John
> >
> > So, what was the fix?
>
>Posted earlier, but basically Vonage had me change the
>MAC address on the faulty VoIP box to the MAC address
>of my laptop, which was successfully getting an IP
>address from Cox.
>
>Note that the problem had nothing to do with Cox's
>blocking of ports; it was a DHCP lease database issue.
>Of course, it could happen again, but now I have some
>strategies for dealing with it. For example, I could
>change the MAC address of my laptop to that of the
>faulty VoIP box and do a DHCP release request, as
>Christian suggested earlier.
>
>John
So, to use both the Vonage system and your laptop, you'll have to have to
purchase 2 IP addresses or swap back and forth? Or, does your laptop plug
into some sort of Vonage adapter?
I assume this is something different than purchasing phone service from Cox
Cable. Do you actually have a phone number, or is this basically IM via
telephone?
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