Tom Keating has a good point about bandwidth shaping. I think that a lot of what is happening so far is done at the network level, with only AT&T’s CallVantage publicly saying they are doing the packet prioritization at the telephone adapter level, which is why they prefer the TA to be in front of the router.
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Interesting. I thought it is because of NAT/Firewall problems. What does their TA do for QoS that it can not do if it were behind another router?
Where are you running yours? I am still behind the router and have heard a few (only a few unlike my Vonage) people say we were breaking up. How much better could it really be in front?
I sort of need it behind in order to not get in the way of some other network things I have running…