To be honest Vonage was very easy to install with Uverse.

1.) Connect the Ethernet Cable to RG (Router)

2.) Then Plug a phone line from the first port into your phone. You should get dial tone at this point.

NOTE: If you want to make all your house jacks hot (Or have dial tone) You MUST go out to the NID and disconnect the phone companies access from the customers access. Other wise you risk the phone company noticing something on the line and they will send a test down the phone pipe and it can cause your vonage box to catch on fire. It's very simple to do at the NID generally there is a RJ-11 Cable coming from the Phone Company Access to the Customer Access you simple disconnect this Jack. This Isolates all your wiring to strictly inside your house and the phone company is taken out of the equation.

3.) If you are making all jacks hot in the house then instead of going from the vonage box to a phone take it directly to the wall jack. And this now makes all the jacks have dial tone. If you want that same line to also have a phone connected then you need to buy a 2 way splitter that way one can go to the vonage box and the other to your phone.

Really it's pretty simply and I had no troubles at all.

You will have a small vonage box that plugs into the RG via ethernet if you want VOIP with Vonage. The box looks kind of like a small DSL modem.

You will have U-verse Set Top Box at all TV's you want service at.

Here is a scenario….

I have my UVERSE router in a back bedroom. I am NOT changing my home phone to Vonage, but instead adding a VOIP line for my business.

The office that I will be working out of is at the front of the house.
I do NOT have an ethernet port in the office NOR a phone line.

If I get the Vonage WIRELESS box and plug it into the existing UVERSE Router will that work?

SO…is the consensus that you can use Vonage with U-Verse? I am making the switch tonight and I don't want any issues. Can I still use my established home network as well?

My apologies for recounting what may have already been stated, but I just got off the phone with a Uverse Sales Rep (fully understanding that a Sales Rep might not be the most technically informed).  I currently have Vonage, plugged into my house (all jacks hot), and to do this my NID is unplugged.  The Uverse Sales Rep told me that Uverse would use the NID and that I would lose the ability to keep my Vonage plugged into my existing phone jacks, thus losing the all jacks "hot."  Can anyone eloborate on this and assist; I'm almost sold on Uverse, but don't want to give up Vonage and my hot jacks.  Thanks!

So,  I'm thinking about doing away with SBC as my phone service and going with vonage.  I can do that right since Uverse is seperate from SBC or ATT whoever has my phone service right now.  Uverse is totally seperate right?  I'm not going to lose uverse by shutting off ATT/SBC phone?

My problem is that I have gaps up to 5 seconds in my Vonage voice service especially when making internalinal calls. They usually happen after the call last longer thatn 2 or 3 minutes.

 I tried upgrading to UVerse Elite, thinking it may be a throughput issue. No change.

I tried reconfiguring my network so that the Vonage router would connect directly to the UVerse box and my computers into the Vonage router's ports. I thought this would insure priority is given to the voice connection. No change.

 Does anybody have any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks, Jose

Yes, with no luck. The actual quality of the voice went down (more background noise) but the gaps remained unchanged.

jose said:

My problem is that I have gaps up to 5 seconds in my Vonage voice service especially when making internalinal calls. They usually happen after the call last longer thatn 2 or 3 minutes.

I tried upgrading to UVerse Elite, thinking it may be a throughput issue. No change.

I tried reconfiguring my network so that the Vonage router would connect directly to the UVerse box and my computers into the Vonage router’s ports. I thought this would insure priority is given to the voice connection. No change.

Does anybody have any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks, Jose

I have the same problem. My calls are all domestic. I had comcast broadband before and didn't have any problems with Vonage. It doesn't seem to happen with each call. If I find a solution, I will let you know.