Question regarding Ooma, and other components.

[Susan Calvin]

7. Absolutely my username is from Asimov!

It's a Motorola MG7540. It was the cheapest thing that seemed suitable.

As far as the firewall, I wonder if it is something coming from the outside that's bothering the modem/router? I'm not totally clear as to how the Ooma works, never had to worry about it before, but it's got to be communicating with something on the outside. The first thing I noticed when I tried to hook it up with my little adapter was that if I turned the firewall any higher than low It wouldn't connect at all. At that point I was blaming the adapter, but the adapter's been hooked up to a computer for a while and everything's fine, so I think the Ooma is definitely the culprit. From the modem/router's point of view anyway. From my point of view the modem / router is the culprit since the Ooma never gave me any trouble before.

Another interesting thing since I hooked up the Ooma directly is that I think my phone has lost its disconnect problem. The speed is definitely faster. The more complicated computer things get, the harder it is to tell what's affecting what.

You are so nice to help me out. There's no telling how long I would have stubbornly refused to run that ethernet cable because it worked fine as it was for over a decade before you figuratively kicked me in the rear.