DVR and Internet Phone Service - can it work?

[rhljp]

I am moving into a new home where I plan to use Vonage (voice over IP) phone service via earthlink cable internet. I then called D* to get a DVR on my plan, but in talking about the phone service, she said that DVR wouldn't work without a LAN line. Although she couldn't really explian why. Can anyone explain? Or does anyone know of a technology workaround for it? Thanks.

 

[rad]

Look over at http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=7 and look for the threads that discuss Vonage and DirecTivo's. Some can make it work, some can't, I do have mine working on the FAX line after calling Vonage and they made a tuning change to my Vonage adapter for packet serialization.

 

[vurbano]

http://www.weaknees.com/modem_fix.php
makes a serial cable sold with external modem that works with Callvantage.

 

[tmbstone]

I have ATT CallVantage and it works for me.

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

For those whose TiVo works with VOIP, is the TiVo connected directly to your VOIP box, or is your box connected to your home's telephone wiring? I got frustrated with the TiVo not being able to complete the daily call for over a month, so I moved the Vonage box downstairs [temporarily] and connected the TiVo directly to it (I have another ethernet switch downstairs). I was able to get a new list of dial-in numbers; I finally chose a New York City (212) number. The TiVo successfully downloaded and installed the 6.2 upgrade after doing so. I moved the Vonage box back upstairs, and it seems to still be working (as long as the dial-in number actually answers).

 

[minorthr]

If you have vonage there is a new firmware upgrade for some of the linksys boxes that is suppossed to significantly help this problem and in somecases solve it completely.

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

UPDATE:

The TiVo wasn't consistently successfully connecting to "the mothership," so I made a serial PPP cable and connected it to a computer. Now I have a 100% success rate, of course.

 

[miller5]

Quick fix

We do 100-130 jobs a day, so we've seen a few of these obivously. Heres the easiest workaround available. Call Vonage. Tell them your connecting a fax machine. They will adjust the baud rate and it should work with no problems. We've had several that we fixed this way. Easy as pie and works every time.

 

[Cascade]

Lingo lets you change between high and normal quality calls via their web-interface.
I've had Lingo for a while and it's working very well.

 

[fkostyn]

To get mine to work properly (D* R10) I had to slow the modem down to 33.6, used a dsl filter in reverse (don't know why, or what it does.. but it helped me connect more often), and had vonage lower my packet something or another to .10. I have 9mbit cable internet and I can hit about 3mb a second download, 1mb upload rates - so bandwith is not a problem. I get a connect now about 90% of the time. If you have the linksys router (not the pap2) you can get a firmware update that REALLY helps it also.