Networking & wireless: Vonage, Work Laptops, Routers & Frustration

Vonage, Work Laptops, Routers & Frustration

I have a GE Smart Connection Center with a 4 port D-Link Router in my multi-level home. Connected in my home office thru router #1 (Linksys) is my home PC. I then connected my wife and my work laptops to the router, and got VPN connections up and running no problem. Here is where it fell apart.

I decided hey, its a new house, lets get Vonage too. So I ordered two business lines (one for each of us) and a home line from Vonage. Two more routers that require 2 connections each for each Vonage line. I got a second router and plugged it in to the 1st router, plugged Vonage line #1 into the 1st router and Vonage line #2 into the second. Sometimes this works, but most of the time one or more of the features (a Vonage line, one of the VPN connections, or my home PC) are not working.

HELP!!! My home PC (HP Pavilion) and one laptop (IBM ThinkPad A31) run Windows XP. The other, newer IBM Laptop runs Windows 2000. The two routers I bought are Linksys and the Vonage Routers are also Linksys.