I figured it out! (it was Vonage)

[Karl]

I finally figured out why I wasn't downloading quickly. I had totally
forgotten that I'm using Vonage (VoIP) for my phone. They have a Motorola
VT1005V hooked up to use the Internet for my phone. Once I remembered that
I realized that the Voice Terminal has to act as a router. So I bypassed
the terminal and my speeds shot up and the ports are now available.

So now the question is, does anyone else use Vonage (or any VoIP) for their
phone and if so, how did you make it allow those ports to be used. I'm
going to read up on it when I get home from work and hopefully I'll be able
to figure it out.

Karl

[Corned Beef Hash]

>"Karl" stated eloquently:

> I finally figured out why I wasn't downloading quickly. I had totally
> forgotten that I'm using Vonage (VoIP) for my phone.

Good show, Mate!
Thanks for sharing.

[Karl]

"Karl" <usereply...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vtuvkah...@corp.supernews.com...

Once again, I'm replying to my own posts.... but in case anyone else is in
the same situation someday I think the answer is to buy a router. Even
though I only have one computer right now, the router will allow me to use
Vonage and the Bittorrent client at the same time. I just need to buy a
router with QoS and then assign the port using Vonage a higher priority.
Then when I'm actually using the phone my BT speeds might go down a little
but they should go back up when I'm done on the phone.

Karl
>
>

[Jeff]

"Corned Beef Hash" <dacj...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<broem9$5nbl9$1...@ID-217638.news.uni-berlin.de>...

Please tell me how you bypassed..router..cable?

[SoS]

<snip>

| Once again, I'm replying to my own posts.... but in case anyone else
is in
| the same situation someday I think the answer is to buy a router.
Even
| though I only have one computer right now, the router will allow me
to use
| Vonage and the Bittorrent client at the same time. I just need to
buy a
| router with QoS and then assign the port using Vonage a higher
priority.
| Then when I'm actually using the phone my BT speeds might go down a
little
| but they should go back up when I'm done on the phone.
|
| Karl

And with a router you'll find that your firewall gets a lot less busy.
Your PC will be a lot harder to get to with that piece of hardware to
guard it!

That's what happened for me anyway :)

SoS

[jati...@hotmail.com]

I had a similar problem. I have been using azureus as my bittorrent
application to download "stuff". I have two computers in my network and
use a Netgear router. My connection before was as follows:
Cable Modem -> Motorola Vonage Adapter -> router -> 1st PC
-> 2nd PC

This set never gave me green smileys. I always had yellow smileys at
best. So, I changed my set up to the following:
Cable Modem -> router -> 1st PC
-> 2nd PC
-> Motorola Vonage Adapter

This set up works great for Azureus. I have seen some choppy voice in
my vonage phone when the download/upload rate is high. I have to see if
my router has QOS option to get around this problem.

I have tried to put the keywords associated with my problem in my
explanation. Hopefully, if someone has a similar problem, he can get to
this thread easily.

Cheers,
Jatin