[Shotimes] re: OT Vonage

[Jack Dalzotto]

I have Vonage.  I really like it.  Quality of service in my opinion 
depends alot on how stable your broadband connection is.  I have a rock 
solid ADSL line, it will keep sync for months at a time.  Friends and 
family say they can notice a slight difference in how we sound, once in 
awhile I notice a slight lag.  Also, if I'm doing heavy downloading I 
notice the Vonage gets a little choppy.  Now, the router they give you 
supposedly gives the phone service priority over other network 
traffic... I don't use their router as a router though, I have a 
standalone server that handles my network traffic, so I can't comment on 
how well it does.

My main reason for getting it was my wife has several long distance 
friends she talks to, we frequently had $120 long distance bills.  She 
can talk to them as long as she wants now. 

The voicemail feature is pretty cool, you can set it up to email your 
VM's to you, and you can play it back on your computer.

What else... oh, you can set it up so if for whatever reason your Vonage 
connection goes down it will forward incoming calls to an alternate number.

For me, on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it a 9!

Jack


Mike Wojton wrote:

>Does anybody use this phone service? Does anybody know any downsides? It
>sounds almost too good to be true, compared to our unlimited long distance
>plan through Verizon. Almost half the price. Any hidden costs?
>
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