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need setup help with Motorola VT2442 through D-Link Dir-655

Is there anyone here who might be able to help me? I do not know very much about networking. I have wireless internet access through a radio receiver on the roof that is connected to the "Internet" port on the D-Link Dir-655 router. "LAN" ports 1, 2, and 3 are connected to computers here in my home office. "LAN" port 4 runs all the way to the other end of my home to the "Internet" port on the Vonage Motorola VT2442. "Ethernet" port 1 is connected to my Dish receiver, 2 is connected to my blu-ray player, and 3 is connected to my Slingbox SOLO to stream my Dish content to my laptop anywhere. "Phone 1" is connected to my home wiring system. Everything worked great before I got the D-link between the internet and Motorola. Now that the Motorola is after the D-link, I can no longer connect to the Slingbox through my home computers or laptop. I think my question is, can I disable the internal firewall in the Motorola and how would I access it?

First, the dir-655 is a great device. Good buy.

If you can get the cabling to work I would just connect all my devices to it directly (i.e. the dish player, the blu ray, the sling box, as well as the vt2442 ata through its blue internet port).

If that doesn’t work, either because you don’t have enough ports on the dir or because you don’t want to run all those cables, then you can just add a new switch at that end of the house and plug everything into that switch (including the dir-655 to form a bridge).. if you didn’t go with gig-e then it would be a choke-point for the dir-655 but I highly doubt you’re using that kind of bandwidth capacity anyhow.

As a compromise you can use the 2442 as both the ATA and that "new switch". You’ll just need to run 2 cables to the 2442 from the dir-655. Plug one into the blue internet port - the ata will use that one for VOIP traffic. and plug the other one into one of the 4 lan ports.. Then you need to go into the console on the 2442 and disable the DHCP server. (http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic16516.html seems to show how to do that). Once you’ve done that any device you plug into the other lan ports will be bridged with the dir-655 and everything will live on the same subnet and happiness will ensue. If you neglect to turn off that DHCP server there won’t be any happiness.

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