voip router and networking

[johnb35]

I've pulled my hair out trying to talk to vonage about networking my computers together. Here is my situation. I have a cable modem hooked up to Linksys WRT54G wireless router. 3 of the 4 ports are going to computers and the other port is going to my vonage router. I have another computer hooked up to the vonage router. I can get online with single computer hooked up to vonage router but I can't get it to recognise the other computers on my network. Both routers have dhcp enabled.... How can I get the single computer to join back to my network. Do I need to disable DHCP on the vonage router and change its ip address or something? Please help.

 

[johnb35]

bump...anybody??? I've been researching a little today and realize that it might be better to put a switch in to get the other computer to recognize the network again instead of attaching it to the vonage router....Will the switch allow this computer to connect to internet and act like it was attached to the router itself? Or what about a hub? Whats the difference between the 2?

 

[axgrinder73]

Sounds like you are double routing. What port ont the Vonage router are you using to connect the Linksys router?

You should be using a LAN port NOT the WAN (internet) port.

The main difference between a switch and a hub is that a hub divides up your bandwidth and are slower than switches. Let us know what you find.