Using service without a modem??

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 22, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi, I live in a building where my internet signal is completely wireless, I have no modem. Does anyone know if there is an adapter/bridge or similar that can be used to hook up my Vonage phone service?
Thanks, Ellen

Posts: 261 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

There are wireless bridges and gaming adapters that can do this however it would not be the recommended method. While your phone will work, the quality may not always be the greatest.

For starters you would be on a shared connection which means anyone else in the building using the internet heavily (downloading, streaming, gaming) may cause quality issues for you.

On top of that, any sort of wireless interference even from electrical devices, wires, lighting, may interfere with the signal causes your quality to not be desirable.

If your still tempted to go this route, adpaters such as the D-Link DWL-G820 or the Linksys WGA54G or anything like them will do the job to get internet to the telephone adapter. You would just need to connect a computer to the gaming adapter first to configure it for the wireless connection. Once this is configured, you can just plug in into the WAN port of the telephone adapter and it should be able to pull down an IP address.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=333

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1115416826619&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Oct 08, 2008 Posts: 11

Hi,
I can't use this type of services so i have no idea about that but one of my friend is working in networking company.I asked him about your question.

Posts: 16 · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: or..

(not promoting this because i dont personally like it)...but you could use a BlackJack....google it

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 04, 2008 Posts: 6

Hi,

You can determine if your phone service would have good quality or bad quality by pinging Vonage proxies try this if you are using Windows open command prompt type in ping -l 600 -n 50 p.voncp.com, if the average latency is under 150 ms that's great but remember you are using wireless and VoIP uses RTP protocol meaning Real Time Protocol so when you speak the other party is supposed to hear you as soon as possible, because of the wireless connection there will be some delay on the line but if you call the tech support we can fix it. And of course using a 5 GHZ wireless router would help a lot, since a lot of devices operate at 2.4 GHZ