[ale] Vonage alternatives...

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I've use the Vonage box both inside and outside of the firewall (I 
> surrendured my iptables firewall for a Linksys 802.11g router / wap). 
> While it *did work* on the inside, it seems to work better on the 
> outside.  When it's inside the firewall, I seem to have a better chance 
> of getting echo or just bad line quality.

That's because it can't do it's qos stuff unless it controls all the 
throughput.  I guess if you have it directly behind our firewall, then 
you should get close to the service you get with it hanging off the 
modem.  I just can't see sticking something like that open on a dsl line 
without a firewall.

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Until later, Geoffrey