Sometimes it pays to update the firmware
We've been struggling a bit with our new Vonage service: dropped calls, and hiccups where one person could not hear the other, have been pretty frequent (and frustrating). Aside from some ongoing issues with our cable modem, it seemed like the call problems kept coming even when the ISP connection was fine.
Today I switched things around so that instead of the original configuration:
Earthlink cable modem --> Netgear WGR614v6 router --> Vonage Motorola VoIP gateway
we now have this:
cable modem --> Vonage gateway --> Netgear router
and call quality seems to be much better. I was concerned that having both the gateway and the router doing NAT might give my connection the wiggins, but so far no such problems. While mucking about in the Netgear, though, I noticed I was due for a firmware update. Result? Prior to the new firmware I was getting between 4 and 5 megabit download speeds -- extremely respectable. After the firmware update...
Wow. A 2x improvement in download speed. Not too shabby.
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