I have a Vonage/Motorola VT-2442 VoIP adapter that I am using while I am here so that my tenants and family can call us easily. We use it to make some phone calls as well to lighten the financial load here. It was a real pain in the ass to set up. There is nothing clear online, and the hotline can't get it to work, either. The hotline said that I needed the T-Online adapter in bridge mode, but that isn't true. Putting it in bridge mode kills its wireless function, which makes the whole system useless. The only things actually plugged into it are my printer and my VoIP adapter. I have the Vonage adapter running through the Telekom DSL modem so that the DSL modem manages the DSL connection and my wireless network as well. I will try to clean this up more later, but here is the gist of what you need:
Set the Vonage device up to authenticate with PPPoE. My Telekom adapter allows PPPoE passthrough. I had to activate that. Here's the trick, though. Your Telekom user name is composed of three different numbers. When I configured my Telekom adapter, I entered everything in its own little box. You can't do that with normal interfaces. To make the Telekom info fit into the single username/password entry field setup do this:
username = Anschlusskennung+T-Online-Nummer+#+Mitbenutzernummer@t-online.de
password= your T-Online password
The Anschlusskennung and the T-Online-Nummer should both be about 12 characters. The Mitbenutzernummer is typically 0001.
The result should look something like this:
username: 123456765432123456765432#0001@t-online.de
I was able to make the connection to Vonage when I entered this info. After the first time I powered the VoIP adapter down, it quit being able to connect. I went in and switched the connection to DHCP again, and it worked. It has worked that way without issues since. It seems that it just needed that one connection to get it straight.
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