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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 8:15 pm
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Originally Posted by javabytes
QoS is not really going to matter, it's not going to be respected outside your own network anyway. If you think it's going to make a difference on your own network, any half decent router should be capable of QoS, but this is really a waste of time.
Originally Posted by gfunkdave
I would just put the Ooma behind the Linksys router. Just buy an Ethernet switch if you don't have enough ports.

Only exception is if the Ooma does some kind of Quality of Service to prioritize voice packets. Then you'd want it connected to the modem.

To see the router's WAN address, look at its status on its web configuration page.
The Linksys does allow me to prioritize internet requests, so I can easily tell it to put the Ooma first and everything else after that.
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