-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've Been offline for a few days.
pls see below for addtional comments... On 8/19/2010 8:13 AM, Martha Huizenga wrote: > hi all, > > We have a client that has Vonage and is having problems. When his office > was somewhere else we gave him a separate router for the vonage box and > one for Internet. At his new office, in his home carriage house the set > up is as follows: > > Antenna on the roof comes into the house to a router. Then that router > is connected to another repeater in the carriage house that is connected > to the Vonage b make sure it is simply a bridged connection. > > I am thinking this is too many hops for Vonage? But hoping someone else > has a better understanding of this. > > Thanks > > Martha First, I would recommend being the VoIP provider yourself and dumping Vonage. Short of that, I would recommend that you use something like VoIP-Jet or Broadvoice, where you can BYOD, and get rid of the sipura devices that are hardwired to Vonage. Okay, It prolly isn't so much a factor of how many hops, as it is the co-mingling of traffic going out through the bottleneck point. I recommend that your client place all SIP, IAX2, and related traffic at the top of the firewall ruleset - If you don't, then anytime someone (especially if it is upstream at the bottleneck) visits something like youtube, your clients going to begin having problems. You might also be NAT'ing NAT'd traffic - bad w/SIP. You may be required to have the NAT'd traffic heading to/from the sipura or other IP/VoIP device NAT'd from a public IP and then not NAT'd again, because there are issues with SIP behind firewalls when you're not doing 1:1 NAT (A way around this is to put a bridge on the forward facing firewall exposed to the public IP network - like the FreeSwitch contrib for pfSense, arguably the best firewall out there, and free). Contact me offlist for additional particulars. Hope that helps :) Kindest regards, - -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services NorthTech Computer TEL: +1.760.666.2703 (US) TEL: +44.702.405.1909 (UK) http://NorthTech.US -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAwAGBQJMcIJfAAoJEE1wgkIhr9j3piEH/2qwmVOADmKb5iX0M/430xLo m9t8/F3g4lX7lBuPdoY7MfyOOv2o0km+ajkbXVo7fmkE7D1AHDy7NGSzJ4lApAS4 8bFJcakmzZ6rGPVe/YKWEALrU/WQHVU/MVyRmPf9894AGmkXnrbBRDyPDjrXBmzL 8IReydN4dsq+CgkcgK0X6eTe5zU26hTJYm78Z6x9zdF2+vdv0d5q/QJfynMCRp8G iQRBfU1aFakeObQqHzxUnjY+AwqaFXnZk9esCQFf3O4XnKHaYyOH92UfCuNj59nP xj6v6pcLH/FeE01s9dg2/P9kOrN34OhSR2FUb5sxCqcFwkjzAf5EF5d7VzbNzb8= =+WnM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
