I recently got the Vonage broadband phone service. They sent me a router w/ phone ports, to which I connected my cable modem, etc etc, you get the idea. Seemed like a good deal, and it has worked out well so far, but now any P2P program I try to use gets terrible connection speeds and fewer search results. One program tells me that I'm behind a NAT router, and will suffer poor performanec because of that. I've heard of a NAT router, but I don't know what it means.

There was very little software that came with the Vonage service, so I can't change any settings for the router that I know of, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, I tried just rigging up my internet the way it was before Vonage, just for one night of P2P sharing, and that totally screwed me up, cause now I can't get the stupid Vonage router to work anymore. I'm about to pound it to death with a hammer. (I have very little patience for things not working the way they should...) Anyway, that's a minor and no doubt solvable problem, but my main point was that swapping back and forth is not feasable because of that problem.

So, is there any known ways of getting my P2P programs to work better with Vonage? Or any ideas?

Thanks in advance.