I just got Ooma and wanted to put it behind my router for ease of management. My router does QOS and I've had other VOIP services I've been able to use fine without QOS enabled with the VOIP's device behind my router. I was easily able to get Ooma working with this setup. However, I quickly noticed that if I was on the phone, I lost internet access. The second I hung up and refreshed a page, the internet would work fine again. Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?
I did move the Ooma hub in front of the router between the modem and the router and can now talk and have internet access at the same time. That would be fine, but I'm having problems forwarding ports to my router and then from my router to my machine. I need this to work because I'm hosting a website locally for the moment while I'm developing it and need other people outside of my LAN to be able to access it. Locally, if I try to hit my website by using its domain name (which DNS has pointing at my local machine), it just goes to the ooma status page. I don't see where I can change what port Ooma listens on locally to avoid that. I've tried having my site listen on a new port in IIS and that works locally, but the forwarding still isn't working.
The way I'm setting up forwarding is that I go to setup.ooma.com and set up a rule that forwards requests to port 8414 to my router's address (the address was assigned by the Ooma hub). Then on the router I have a rule that forwards that requests to that port to the appropriate machine behind the router. This was all working fine before I put my router behind the Ooma hub. I have also opened up the firewall port on my machine running IIS, so all should be well, but it just times out when i go to http://www.myhost.com:8414.
Ideally, I'd like to have the Ooma hub behind my router, but I'm not sure why I lose internet access completely when I'm on the phone. It isn't just that the internet gets slower, it times out on every page I try to hit. I have lots of other devices on my network behind my router and they all work fine if being used at the same time and I have lots of bandwidth.
If anyone has any ideas why I lose internet access with the hub behind my router and what I can do to fix it, that would be great. If not, can someone tell my why doing port forwarding from my ooma hub to my router to my machine isn't working, or how I can get the ooma hub to listen on a different port than port 80? I've never had a problem with port forwarding from my router to my machine. It just seems like the Ooma hub isn't forwarding the request to the router even though I know I have the right address that the Ooma hub designated for my router and the rule is setup correctly.
I did move the Ooma hub in front of the router between the modem and the router and can now talk and have internet access at the same time. That would be fine, but I'm having problems forwarding ports to my router and then from my router to my machine. I need this to work because I'm hosting a website locally for the moment while I'm developing it and need other people outside of my LAN to be able to access it. Locally, if I try to hit my website by using its domain name (which DNS has pointing at my local machine), it just goes to the ooma status page. I don't see where I can change what port Ooma listens on locally to avoid that. I've tried having my site listen on a new port in IIS and that works locally, but the forwarding still isn't working.
The way I'm setting up forwarding is that I go to setup.ooma.com and set up a rule that forwards requests to port 8414 to my router's address (the address was assigned by the Ooma hub). Then on the router I have a rule that forwards that requests to that port to the appropriate machine behind the router. This was all working fine before I put my router behind the Ooma hub. I have also opened up the firewall port on my machine running IIS, so all should be well, but it just times out when i go to http://www.myhost.com:8414.
Ideally, I'd like to have the Ooma hub behind my router, but I'm not sure why I lose internet access completely when I'm on the phone. It isn't just that the internet gets slower, it times out on every page I try to hit. I have lots of other devices on my network behind my router and they all work fine if being used at the same time and I have lots of bandwidth.
If anyone has any ideas why I lose internet access with the hub behind my router and what I can do to fix it, that would be great. If not, can someone tell my why doing port forwarding from my ooma hub to my router to my machine isn't working, or how I can get the ooma hub to listen on a different port than port 80? I've never had a problem with port forwarding from my router to my machine. It just seems like the Ooma hub isn't forwarding the request to the router even though I know I have the right address that the Ooma hub designated for my router and the rule is setup correctly.