[ale] Hylafax and Vonage

[Brandon Colbert]

Geoffrey wrote:

> Brandon Colbert wrote:
>
>> Upon switching to Vonage, we have lost the ability to connect with
>> many of our clients.  30-40% of incoming faxes don't complete and
>> about the same number of outgoing ones do not complete. Are there any 
>> special settings in hylafax to get it to work correctly over VOIP?
>
>
> Is your vonage box sharing the bandwidth with other machines?  You 
> should have it in a location where it's qos will address that issue.
>
> That is to say, it shouldn't be, say on a switch with 9 other 
> computers.  The safest place would be between your firewall and the 
> rest of your network.  That way it's protected by the firewall, but 
> can do the qos to the total bandwidth.
>
The firewall is first and it has three network cards in it. One 
card/subnet is the WAN connection. Second card/subnet is the LAN. Third 
card/subnet is the VOIP.