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When you call your ISP, ask for a dry loop DSL or a Naked DSL. If they try to sell you on their landline phone seevices, just kindly say no to their offers. I've seen cases where customers had to speak to the retention department. It is their last shot to retain you. 

If Dry loop or Naked DSL is not available, then you're better off getting the cheapest landline possible (local calls only, no features added) and using Vonage for long distance (depending on where you call and how long you're on the phoine, you might be better off with the basic 500 minute plan).

I hope this helps.
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There is no benefit and it might possibly be a detriment. If you have QOS enabled on your router or the V-Portal first, it will priority voice over other traffic. If each has its own public IP address, both are operating at the same priority.

You should be fine with your setup as it is. The only thing I would reccomend doing is turning off SIP Application Layer Gateway on the D-Link router, if you can on your model.
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<title>Click2callu and Simulring</title>
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You cannot use click2call with call forwarding or simulring; it will only work from your Vonage phone.
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I have my V-Portal hooked up to my Dlink DGL-4500 as a client and setup qos on the D-Link to make any traffic coming to/from the V-Portal as number 1 priority.  I've got 8mbit down and 768k up and haven't noticed any issues.  The DGL-4500 seems to be pretty good at handling the traffic and qos.

My question is...I have seen many people talk about putting the Vonage adapter in parallel with your main router utilizing a switch off of the cable modem.  So essentially the V-Portal would get its own public IP, but my other traffic would go down/up another IP through the main router.  My ISP allows this, but I am having trouble thinking how this could benefit me.  If I do that...wouldn't I still be bound by how the cable modem itself handles traffic?  I mean if I'm streaming a bunch of packets through one IP, and the Vonage adapter needs traffic on the other IP, the cable modem still has to deal with all those packets in one pipe.  The only benefit I could think of would be that the Vonage adapter wouldn't need to be NATd or have to pass through the firewall on the router.

Am I missing something?
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<blockquote>Call Waiting Deluxe is just another name for &quot;Call Waiting with Caller ID&quot;, which Vonage has.  Just to make sure it's clear, you will see the name/number of a caller on the display when the call waiting beep goes off just as you would see it when you are not on the phone.</blockquote>

i was looking into this feature awhile back   call waiting deluxe isn't call waiting with caller id   that's called Call Waiting ID  on Wikipedia it says this

Call Waiting Deluxe is the Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) term for Type II caller ID with Disposition Options.

This CLASS-based POTS-telephone calling feature works by combining the services of call waiting with caller ID but also introduces an &quot;options&quot; feature that, in conjunction with certain screen-based telephones, or other capable equipment, gives a telephone user the option to

    * Switch: Place the current call on hold to take the second call (not a new feature)
    * Hang-up: Disconnect the current call and take the second call
    * Please Hold: Send the incoming caller either a custom or telephone company-generated recording asking them to hold
    * Forward to Voice Mail: Send the incoming caller to the customers voice mail service.
    * Join: Add the incoming caller to conversation in a form of reverse three-way calling.


basically the join feature works like this....    if I'm on the phone with Joe,  and  Billy calls   i can add Billy into the conversation with Joe like a 3way call
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What is click2callu?
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Tried a couple out dated Yahoo Widgets with no luck.  I'm looking for any type of Vonage/VOIP tools that will do any of the following:

-Someone calls, it pops up on the PC screen just like Dish Network's built in caller ID does on the TV.

-Will turn off my downloads (guessing that would be a program that's built to run next to vonage) or would limit my PC's bandwidth.  So if I get a call I can cut my speed to 10kb and give the other 110kb to Vonage.

Any other fun tools, besides calling from the computer, that's pointless, I have home phones for that  :roll: 

Thanks!
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csnet,
I am doing exactly the same thing you are. My wife has almost all her minutes for the last 3 years. Total cost for 3 years $120.00 with 900 minutes still on her account. I use my cell more and get $100 refills 2-4 times a year. The cheapest and best bargain. I use Vonage so that my wife can call her mother in China for 1 penny a minute. Verizon wants 15 cents a minute put $30+ a month for basic charges. 
What amazes me is many of my friends cannot understand why my plan is cheaper than theirs. The &quot;free&quot; nights and weekends is what gets them.
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Click2callu doesn't seem to work with simulring or call forwarding, any ideas?  I have simulring turned on going to my cellphone and when I initiate a click2callu, it will ring both my vonage phone and my cellphone, however, if I answer my cellphone, it is immediately disconnected.  Using the same click2callu (hitting the refresh button on the browser), and answering my vonage phone, it connects. 

Thanks,

Garrett
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<blockquote><blockquote>Any one else having this problem?
solutions?</blockquote>Yes, as you've heard, it's an old story.  I recommend a small UPS dedicated to modem and Vonage box, even for people who don't have the D-link problem.  Maintaining phone service has a high WAF (wife acceptance factor).</blockquote>Having had Vonage service for over two years and been OK with it, I recently bought a VWR. And returned it having given a really good try at getting it to a state that I can live with it.

Bottom line is this:

If you have recently bought a D-Link/Vonage VWR return it.

If you have one and can't return it then destroy the wireless circuit in it.  You may then need to buy a non-Vonage good quality wireless router, there are lots of them. The Linksys/Cisco WRT54GL is one of the best made and best supported (the firmware is open source).

If you continue to use the VWR and fail to destroy the wireless transmitter your network will become unsecure at the next power cycle and you will be &quot;wardrived&quot; hacked into.

If you are new to Vonage and wondering what to buy, then buy HARD-WIRED phone products from Vonage, not wireless. Vonage wireless gear is an open invitation to identity thieves. Buy only non-Vonage wireless gear.
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