Review by MotoVT 
UPDATED: 2 years ago
member for 6.9 years, 1276 visits, last login: 15 days ago
 Butler,Butler,PA
 $27 per month
 about 5 days
 "Easy to use site, one bill, features, good overseas voice quality"
 "Needs a router, despite what Vonage says."
 "More solid performance now than when I started."
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After some intitial teething problems related to a combination of factors such as modem, latency, dicey Siemens 2415 phone, and router, I have been running solidly for over 4 weeks now. Not even so much as a reboot of the Motorola device.
I still have a little chop when downloading however it is a rare instance where I am on the net and the phone at the same time.
I have had no billing issues and calls overseas to Cyprus are going very well.
Overall, I am pleased now that the initial problems have been worked out. I would recommend Vonage to folks who are looking to save money on their phone bill.
I say give them some time to work out the teething problems. For the money, its hard to beat.
Equipment:
Motorola ATA v1005
Surfboard SB5100 modem
Armstrong Cable 3000/down 256 up
HP Kmart blue light special computer.
Uniden TRU8885-2 cordless phone
Update********
I now have a netgear rp614 router. Seems to stablize things dramatically here.
Also replaced the Siemens phone with a Uniden. ISP replaced surfboard 4100 modem with 5100 surfboard unit.
International calls to Cypress are going well. Good voice quality.
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5/31/2004
Still running solidly behind the Netgear RP614 router. I feel having a router in the mix has been critical to soild performance.
***********update****************
Still running solid. New phone, Uniden tru8885 has made a lot of difference.
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10/21/2007
The Netgear RP614 was giving me problems so I replaced it with a wireless Netgear router. Once I got that all set up, the moto box took off, got an IP addy and I was making and receiving calls no problem.
Still same motorola VT1005 and same Motorola cable modem, same ISP, same Uniden TRU 8885 5.8Ghz phones.
Still chugging along.
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