Xanadoo Wireless Internet With Vonage

kingryan2150 · Post by **kingryan2150** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:47 am

If anyone can help, thanks. I just bought Vonage service and planned on using it with my Xanadoo wireless internet. When I went to Vonage's site originally, I tested my speed acouple of times with their guage. It came back saying I would get atleast 90% quality service(1.5MBps dl, 350kps ul), which seemed fine. Now that I have it, I get anywhere from 6%-60%, rarely 90%... The phone cuts out and is pretty much useless. Does anyone know of a way to improve my connection, or am I stuck having to go to cable(which I don't want to do....)?

I'm running win xp home, have 512 MB RAM, use no router. I don't know what info you need, so if you need to know something specific just ask. Thanks for any help!

press2esc · Post by **press2esc** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:46 pm

If you are using DSL broadband, many of the DSL ISPs do not support QOS for VoIP. VoIP is a competing technology that appears to be "cleaning their clocks".

Concerning your overall speeds, try running a speedtest at speakeasy.net/speedtest. When you test for speed, are you wireless or connected via ethernet?

P2E

kingryan2150 wrote:If anyone can help, thanks. I just bought Vonage service and planned on using it with my Xanadoo wireless internet. When I went to Vonage's site originally, I tested my speed acouple of times with their guage. It came back saying I would get atleast 90% quality service(1.5MBps dl, 350kps ul), which seemed fine. Now that I have it, I get anywhere from 6%-60%, rarely 90%... The phone cuts out and is pretty much useless. Does anyone know of a way to improve my connection, or am I stuck having to go to cable(which I don't want to do....)?

I'm running win xp home, have 512 MB RAM, use no router. I don't know what info you need, so if you need to know something specific just ask. Thanks for any help!

kingryan2150 · Post by **kingryan2150** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:55 pm

Thanks. My connection is thru a wireless modem. It works off cell phone towers, I guess... I didn't know if there's a way to tweak either my connection or vonage to allow the phone to use most, if not all the bandwidth. If there's a way, someone please tell me.... Thanks!

AndyM · Post by **AndyM** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:36 am

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