[BC] Vonage/Tivo

[John Davis]

In my experience, the latest round of Vonage adaptors/DirecTivo boxes
doesn't support the hack that Jeff is quoting below.  I tried all the forums
before I broke down and called Vonage and got somewhere.

Here's what I had to do for my DirecTivo to work initially:

1.  Sit on hold at Vonage for an eternity.
2.  Have Vonage tech support turn off the echo cancellation.
3.  Use a 212 area code number to phone home.

This meant that all my voice calls had a bad echo on them.  So for round 2:

1.  Sit on hold at Vonage for an eternity.
2.  Have Vonage move the echo cancellation and bandwith settings over to a
new "fax" number that's on line 2 of the Vonage box.
3.  Restore the bandwith settings on my main line back to normal.
4.  Plug in an adaptor that splits out line 1 + line 2 into separate RJ
jacks, and have the living room phone plugged into line 1 and DirecTivo into
line 2.

>From what the guy at Vonage told me, the hacks that Jeff quoted do work for
older gear, but not for the stuff I bought last March.

Of course, the DirecTivo boxes are now being obsoleted as DirecTV rolls out
its own crappy DVR so they don't have to pay Tivo $1.25 a box, so soon this
will all be moot...

Once I did get on the line with a Vonage tech, I found that they knew what
they were doing and they called back to follow up about a half hour later.
But I must have waited for an hour in the queue to get to them first.

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Loughridge
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:24 PM
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Vonage/Tivo

I use Vonage. Had it for about 1.5 years, and just ported my Verizon number 
over about 5 months ago. I have two DirecTivos; one several years old and 
one brand new. I bought it to replace an original Sony Version 1 Tivo that 
would not work with Vonage, no matter what I did.