Product Description

Vonage VDV21-VD

Brand	Vonage
Model	VDV21-VD
Type	Telephone System

Features

The Vonage V-Portal can connect up to 2 Vonage lines through your high-speed Cable or DSL Internet connection and includes a networking router. It's great for all your phone and routing needs. Just plug it into your existing broadband connection and use the two standard telephone jacks to connect your existing phones or fax machine. The Vonage V-Portal has a user friendly LCD display with caller ID and call timer, call logs (missed/received/dialed) with up to 50 entries each, language selection, and built-in upstream bandwidth tester. The Vonage V-Portal allows you to use your Internet connection for your computer and your phones at the same time and because it's Vonage, you get clear digital phone sound quality.

Vonage V-Portal VoIP VoIP router

The Vonage V-Portal (also the Vonage Box) VDV21-VD is a router and IAD that has some pretty nice features.  Along with the standard VoIP ATA configuration capabilities you would expect in a router it has a simplified QoS  configuration screen allowing the highest priority for voice, while offering a slide scale to increase or decrease some common applications.  This slide scale V-Portal QoS feature is an easy way to prioritize voice.  For more granular QoS control there is an advanced configuration QoS page incorporated in the GUI, as well.  This V-Portal also has a unique built in GR-909 testing package that can quickly diagnose issues ranging from faulty house wiring to a phone off hook in premise keeping the line open.  No other home based VoIP ATA has such a feature that i am aware of. 

The V-Portal showing power, 1 WAN port, 1 LAN port and 2 phone lines.

The recommended setup is to have the V-Portal placed first after the modem, but connecting it behind a router should work as well in most cases, if not then use our VoIP troubleshooting tips to correct any issues.  It does have PPPTP and IPSec passthrough, along with port forwarding for those who use VPN or other type connections. 

Logging into the V-Portal (Vonage Box) requires a connection into the LAN port and an address of 192.168.15.1 or V-Configure.com from a web browser.  The default username and password are both "router".