Linksys WRTP54G Wireless-G Broadband Router for Vonage Internet Phone Service
- All-in-one Internet-sharing router, 4-port switch, and 54 Mbps Wireless-G (802.11g) Access Point
- Shares a single Internet connection and other resources with Ethernet wired and Wireless-G and B devices
- Two standard phone jacks enable feature-rich telephone service over your cable or DSL Internet connection
- Supports two independent telephone numbers
- High security: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), wireless MAC address filtering, powerful SPI firewall
Product Description
All-in-one Internet-sharing Router, 4-port Switch, and 54 Mbps Wireless-G Access Point. Features 2 phone jacks to enable feature-rich Internet telephone service and advanced security: WPA and a powerful SPI firewall.The Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is really four devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect both screaming fast Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps) devices to the network. There’s also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Connect four PCs directly, or attach more hubs and switches to create as big a network as you need. The Router function lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The fourth function is the phone adapter which enables high-quality feature-rich telephone service through your high-speed connection even while you’re surfing the Internet. There are two standard telephone jacks, each operating independently — like having two phone lines. With Vonage Service, you’ll get low domestic and international phone rates, Caller ID, Call Waiting, Voicemail, Call Forwarding, Distinctive Ring, and lots of other available special phone features.
Linksys WRTP54G Wireless-G Broadband Router for Vonage Internet Phone Service
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Linksys products are no more reliable than any other (sometimes less so in fact).
The real problem comes in their customer service (which is absolutely terrible!) which means that if anything DOES go wrong, you’re stuffed.
Avoid Linksys products. Eventually, they’ll take the hint and buck their ideas up. If not, well…there are lots of alternative suppliers.
Rating: 1 / 5
This device is four devices in one. (1) You begin by creating a home or office network using the four-port SWITCH into which you plug up to four Ethernet cables from PCs or other switches or hubs. (2) Add wireless laptops with the WIRELESS ACCESS POINT. (3) Connected to your DSL or cable modem the device serves as a ROUTER, permitting all networked computers to simultaneously browse the web and do email while any mail or web servers on your network handle traffic routed to them. (4) Finally the device has two IP PHONE PORTS that permit connecting two standard analog phones. With third-party monthly service from Vonnage or others, you then can have one or two new phone numbers with transmission (after conversion to digital data in the device) over your DSL or cable modem line. All of these services function simultaneously.
There are limited firewall features as well, enough only for a home or very small office network.
We installed this device on a Verizon DSL line with a static IP, which replaced an AT&T DSL line. The line provides a web connection for an office network of thirty workstations (including a few wireless laptops) and servers (including a mail server, web server, and DNS servers). We left our Microsoft ISA (PC firewall and router software package) that has been in place since 2000 between the Linksys device and our LAN in order to add firewall features and to make the changeover easy. No changes of any kind were required downstream of ISA.
Our network worked fine with no problems including browsing, email, and web publishing. We rerouted our traffic for our domain names to the new IP address ourselves using our account with Network Solutions.
We have not yet tried the IP phone function and note that Vonnage is promoting this item at this time. We wanted the IP phone feature as an emergency backup. Don’t forget that if your Internet connection is DSL from your phone company, your DSL line has at least one analog phone number in addition to any Vonnage IP numbers that you add.
Installation was lots of fun. Things have come a long way since I engineered our first wide-area dial-up network in 1984. The manual is written for consumers and adequate for the typical home or small office network using DHCP and operating without servers. Complexity beyond that will require experience or resources beyond what is in the box.
Rating: 4 / 5
Believe me, you do not want Vonage service. You will curse your luck that you ever signed up for it. I bought this unit few months ago. The vonage service worked for few days and then unit started giving trouble. It would not work half the time. Then one fine day it stopped working. I still have my land line so I wanted to cancel the Vonage account. I called the account dept several times but nobody would pick up the phone. I waited a total of 7 hours trying to get hold of somebody who would take my call. The only live person I could get to were from technical support who were of no use. On top of all this I was told that there is cancellation fee of $40. I still cannot figure out how to cancel my account. Looks like I will have take the vonage account to my grave.
SO DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT
Rating: 1 / 5
I have had nothing but trouble from Vonage. They take forever to transfer your current number(I waited 4 months and it never transfered)while you still have to keep your current phone service. If you cancel in less than a year they charge you 40 dollars. Vonage is not customer friendly. It’s hard to get a hold of their customer service group. Their corporate phone system is unreliable. The operators won’t let you speak to their superior and they won’t bend policies to make customers happy.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 30, 2007
If you already started the bad Vonage trip, be sure to close out your
debit card BEFORE you attempt to cancel. They are experienced at
getting there before you can. You’ll open your account and find those
add-on surprise fees for cancelling their very bad product/service.
PLEASE keep records and file complaints. This is dirty business.
Rating: 1 / 5