Using Vonage With a PCI Installation

When we installed your wireless service, we put a PCI card in your desktop computer. Here's how to set up the Vonage box to "talk" to our wireless system.

What You Will Need

1 - A CAT5 Crossover cable. Get one that is as long as you'll need. If you can't find one, OnALot.com makes these up for $5 for a 6 footer, and $1 / foot for longer ones.

2 - The Vonage router. It ships with 2 cables, and you will need the blue one to program it up. Neither of their cables is a crossover cable.

Set Up Instructions

Vonage ships 2 types of routers. One type has 4 computer ports, and the other only has one. Please make note of this when setting it up.
Power up the Vonage router and your computer. After they all boot up, connect any one of the router's 1, 2, 3 or 4 LAN ports, or, the Ethernet port, to the Ethernet port on your computer using the blue Straight Cable.
On your desktop computer, click on Start - Control Panel - Network Connections. If you don't see this on your menu, click on "Switch to Classic View" on the top left side of the Control Panel, then click on Network Connections.
Right click on the LAN connection and select properties. On the General page, click once on the line "Internet Protocol TCP/IP" to highlight it, and then click on the properties button below it.
Click the top button "Obtain an IP address automatically" It may already be set to this, that's ok.
Click OK and then close up all open pages.
Open an Internet Explorer browser page.
Enter the following address on the Address line: 192.168.15.1
The Vonage router will present a login page.
Username = router
Password = router
On the Home page, click on WAN settings. Change the Internet Connection Type from DHCP to Static IP and enter the following numbers:
Internet IP Address = 192.168.0.10
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway = 192.168.0.1
Static DNS 1 = 65.70.70.129
Static DNS 2 = 68.94.156.1
Static DNS 3 = 68.94.157.1
Click on Save or OK
The router is now fully programmed and ready to use. Disconnect the Straight cable from both the computer and the router. Connect the Crossover Cable from the computer's Ethernet port to the WAN or Internet port on the Router.
On your main computer, click on Start - Control Panel - Network Connections.
On the left side, click on the "Set up a home or small office network" line.
Click Next and then Next again.
Click the first button: "This computer connects directly to the Internet. The other computers on my network connect to the Internet through this computer" and then click Next
This page determines how your main computer gets the Internet. Select the Wireless Network Connection (or dialup if that's what you are using) line by clicking on it to highlight it, and click Next
Enter a name for your computer description. Click Next
You can use the MSHOME default workgroup. Click Next
Select Turn off file and printer sharing. Click Next
Click Next again
This will take a few moments while your computer sets up the files.
Select Just finish the Wizard, I don't need to run the wizard on other computers. Click Next and then click Finish
Restart your computer
Connect a telephone to the Vonage #1 port.
When your computer is fully booted up, pick up the telephone handset and you should now hear a dialtone.
Make a telephone call and test the connection.

Important!

Your Vonage box uses your computer to make phone calls. Because of this, your computer must be turned On all the time. If your computer is off, you cannot make or take any phone calls.

Also, if you are downloading videos, music, games and other high demand applications, your phone will probably become choppy. Your computer will have to keep up with a lot of data, and sometimes the phone will lag as a result.

If you don't like this, consider upgrading your wireless connection to our Bridge system. Our Bridge system is always on, and doesn't need your computer to work with the Vonage box. Call us for information on upgrading.