[nflug] Configuring VoIP with Router/modem

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

Thus spake Joe on Wed, 10 May 2006

> I have a Westell 327W DSL modem/router and a Sunrocket (Innomedia 
> MTA6328-2Re) VoIP box.  My DSL is 860/156 nominal.  Right now, I have only 1 
> PC connected by ethernet, but later, I may have one or more additional ones 
> either ethernet or wireless.
>
> Since my bandwidth is relatively low, I would like to tell the Westell to 
> give top priority to the VoIP (currently on Port 2) and lower priority to 
> everything else (now, just the PC on Port 1).  Is there a way to do that? 
> The router has a lot of options, but I don't understand most of them.  What 
> should I look for?
>
> Sunrocket just says to connect the VoIP between the modem and the PC.  That 
> will work fine, for one PC, but not if I add anything to the network.

Actually, your phone modem is probably (like my vonnage adapter) just a 
simple router. So you can bring your internet into it, and then out to a 
hub/switch and then to your computer(s). But I'm sure that your phone 
modem will not have the ability to dish-out bandwidth the way that you 
want. And I don't know enough about routering to answer the main part of 
your question.

>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Joe
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