Voip and Airport Extreme

[mwarriner]

We're thinking about switching our house phones from landlines to VOIP. Right now we have a cable modem hooked directly into an Airport Extreme base station. Printer is networked off of the Airport Extreme. We have an iMac (10.3.9) and two Windows laptops accessing the internet wirelessly thorugh the Airport Extreme. Both laptops use their internal Intel wireless card and the iMac has an Airport card inside.

Before I take the plunge and sign up for Vonage, I wanted to see what experiences were around the net community. The results I saw were mixed and I didn't see anybody else using a similar set-up. A lot of folks had other routers or Airport Express instead of Extreme and other configurations

Our modem connection and base station are upstairs. The fax machine is also upstairs but all the other phone lines and the computers are downstairs.

Any recommendations or advice on how to make these connections if we do go forward? BTW- the base station is the older "flying saucer" style base station with USB, WAN and LAN ports.

Thanks for helping!
MIke

[debiso]

I am using a new extreme with voip and it is working great! I don't about vonage, I get voip from a local company. I have a linksys voip adaptor. I rewired so the internet goes directly to the linksys then the linksys to the airport. The linksys manages the voip bandwidth. This works great for us. We dropped both of our land lines and went completely to voip.

[michaelsanford]

I've been VoIP for almost 5 years with a SIP service (not Vonage).

VoIP uses surprisingly little bandwidth, you should be fine. Although, lack of QoS is something that is *sorely* missing from Apple networking hardware.