Anyone use this? The whole setup sounds really sweet. Just looking for opinions, experience with this. Thanks yall! E
I had it for a couple of months and it worked perfectly for nationwide calling. The reason why I had to let it go was because out of country calls kinda sucked. If you don't make overseas calls often you really can't beat Vonage, $25 bucks for unlimited nationwide is a pretty sweet deal.
Okie. I make a bunch of incoming/outcoming calls in the states, and sometimes to canada. Very very rarely overseas. I think i am going to go with it, sounds like a sweet deal for sure E
Eric, Try a search--I think there's a thread from a few months ago about Vonage. I've had it for a year and a half now and it works quite well.
I have had it at home since last October. Took a few tries to get everything tuned right, but now it's about 90% or better of landline quality and 1/3 the price. Buy an adaptor that lets you control Quality of Service (QoS) on upload. The most basic phone adaptor (PAP2) doesn't do this. I replaced the PAP2 with a WRTP34G and it's been fine. Now that's been replaced with a WRTP54G. There is some discussion in the Internet about varying capabilities of routers that appear to be identical. The www.vonage-forum.com is not obviously connected with Vonage and has useful info. I bought a multi-handset system, only to find out that only one handset will function at a time, ie you can't carry on a conversation with two people on different handsets. I just bought a standard line splitter and hooked two phones to it. Someone else on an earlier thread actually connected the adaptor output into his house wiring, so that all his standard phones worked. I don't think this is a good idea unless you completely disconnect the phone company power source from your house. Note that you must already have high-speed access for VOIP to function.
I am starting my third year with Vonage. (Has it been that long?) IT ROCKS!!! I call London and Modena basically *every* day, and my bill is never more than $100/month. In fact, I just got an email that calls to London are now free. (Ask Paul Hill how much I already bug his staff!) I have 2 landlines and a Softphone through Vonage. Fax works fine, simul-ring onto my cellular works great, etc. etc. I'm just waiting for some idiot in Washington DC to ruin it for everyone. (Or some big fat Wall Street company to buy them out). Vonage Rules Vonage Rules Vonage Rules .
I have one question: They advertise $24.95 (or whatever), but what is it really after they add on all the taxes ? As far as the WRT54 stuff goes, I am not familiar with the IP phone routers, but I am familiar with the Linksys family of home computer routers, and since Cisco bought out Linksys, they are stripping a TON of the functionality out of their routers, and have been for the last year or so. So if you have a Linksys router that is 2+ years old, it's GOLD, there are lots of firmware updates you can do on those you cannot do on the new ones. If you want more info, PM me. Again, They advertise $24.95 (or whatever), but what is it really after they add on all the taxes ?
My Vonage bill is $27.72/mo after taxes. I've had them for 6 months or so, and have been very happy. Much better than paying $42/mo to Ameritech, with no long distance.
