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Review by ChuckIL9 
UPDATED: 219 days ago
member for 4 years, 1101 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Peoria,Peoria,IL
 Contract price not specified.
 about 1 days
 "It just (used to) work"
 "It's dead Jim"
 "Fun while it lasted"
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21-April-09
I see that I have a review for Stanaphone still out there. Well...it's gone (Stanaphone, that is). Too bad...too. An innovator in the VOIP world that has passed. So long old friend.
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I signed up with Stanaphone a year ago, and the service has been flawless the whole time. I only use it as a backup, but everytime I've needed it, it worked. The feature set is sparse, E911 is non-existant, but for no monthly fee and 1.6 cents a minute (outbound) it does exactly what a phone service should...allows you to talk on the phone. I have used the fax service as needed, and incoming fax has always been great when I needed it. It's too bad they have closed off signup to residential customers. For a backup phone service it has functioned, and continues to function perfectly.
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Review by gbh2o
UPDATED: 1 year ago
member for 8.9 years, 2590 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Longs,Horry,SC
Contract price not specified.
about 5 days
"Free incoming, free 800, free DID, BYOD, no contracts"
"Shutting their doors December 1, 2008"
"Shutting their doors December 1, 2008"
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UPDATE 20081106 - StanaPhone has decided to close their doors effective 20081201 according to their website. I will miss their reliable inbound fax service and general quality of voice traffic. Unlike other companies, StanaPhone continues to display their classiness by offering to return unused funds with their closing; few others have done likewise. May their other business ventures remain successful.
UPDATE 20080826 - I've watched this once reliable service become intermittent with numerous predominantly weekend outages. It almost 'feels' like the service is running on unmonitored old equipment that either automatically periodically reboots or has some loose form of 'watchdog' failure detection. When it works, it's great. Unfortunately, it's no longer anything upon which one would want to rely. ;-(
UPDATE 20080617 - They seem to be having some outages these days, so the reliability rating takes a hit! I'm not ready to give up on them since they've provided good quality service to this residential customer, most of the time.
UPDATE January 13, 2008. Little has changed... StanaPhone is till a great value with good reliability and quality. See below
I have found StanaPhone to be a solid service. Even thought it is in a Beta state, they keep adding valuable extras like free incoming fax to email service. Tech support has been good to me, always responding to problems I submit. Time to reply obviously reflects the criticality of my problem. Trivial may take a day or two for a reply. Critical has been answered very quickly, even with a phone call if they need additional detail. Their user forums have also been of great help.
The most difficult process originally was getting a Packet8 DTA-310 correctly set up to work with StanaPhone's service [Other generic ATAs worked immediately]. Now, many of my friends and family members have DTA-310s in use and we communicate for free among us. Great reason to recycle P8 equipment!
I have found the quality of outbound service to be very high. Although I have several VoIP services for general use, I frequently find myself using Stanaphone for important calls when I want to be sure of the quality of the connection. The quality is there and the per minute cost is very reasonable, considering that I'm paying nothing for a DID, any inbound calls, or calls within the StanaPhone network.
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 Review by Prayer
UPDATED: 1.6 years ago
member for 7.9 years, 1181 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Warminster,Bucks,PA
Contract price not specified.
"Free DID number"
"Only NY number"
"So What! it is still FREE and so what if it is NY ?"
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An alternate way to call me now on an additional phone number. I can even call out on this number if I want to deposit $5 towards a pay as you go system. I call internationally so little that I can't be a good judge of that. Update: its up and down but still seems to be running for those who want to know.
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Review by jchin
Posted: 3.3 years ago
member for 4.1 years, 62 visits, last login: 1.3 years ago
10300
$5 per month
"NYC local number; StanaFAX-IN (FAX-to-PDF) ROCKS!"
"NONE"
"Everyone with a laptop should have StanaPhone installed on it."
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Can't really complain. $5 every so often so I can make outgoing calls. Free incoming calls.
Too bad the StanaFAX option that was free for beta testers does not seem to work anymore. StanaFAX-IN is the BEST incoming FAX to PDF service out!
Had the service for about a year now ... since its beta test days. So I have free inbound FAX-to-PDF also.
Everyone with a laptop should have StanaPhone installed on it.
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Review by rkc rkc
Posted: 3.5 years ago
member for 3.5 years, 1 visits, last login: 3.5 years ago
undisclosed location
Contract price not specified.
"Prices"
"Calls disconnected! No support"
"Only if you gamble with call"
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Calls are disconnected every 5 minutes. Incomming and outgoing.
People complaints do not get attention by support. Silence.
Stay away if your calls are longer then 5 minutes .......
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Review by im_chandave
UPDATED: 3.7 years ago
member for 4.3 years, 1375 visits, last login: 8 days ago
Cleveland,Cuyahoga,OH
$5 per month
about 1 days
"Easy setup for BYOB. No charge for Toll-free calls."
"My $5 well spent. Hope they stay around for a while."
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Using this as a Toll-free dialing option. Much better than Sipphone when connecting (100% as opposed to sipphone which only connect 80% of the time). Additionally, I have no problems with my SIP registrations (unlike sipphone's overloaded SIP proxy which fails to ACK my RE-registers 10% of the time).
Even though they don't require any balance on the account, I'm willing to put in my $5 to at least keep them afloat. It's money well spent.
2006/02/27: Am no longer using them for Toll-free dialing since they now charge for all outgoing connections. Still keep the DID since my account is grandfathered with incoming minutes. The switch from single account to dual accounts (one for incoming and one for outgoing) is a bit confusing at first but works out ok in the end.
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Review by mark2
Posted: 3.9 years ago
member for 4.8 years, 804 visits, last login: 9 days ago
Lakewood,Ocean,NJ
Contract price not specified.
"free incoiming with no setup charge on your own sip device"
"charge to call 800 numbers"
"good for incoming"
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they are very good for incoming as they give you your details and a free did
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Review by verteggio
Posted: 4.1 years ago
member for 7.3 years, 338 visits, last login: 1.6 years ago
Lawrenceville,Gwinnett,GA
Contract price not specified.
"Reliable, good quality, simple"
"Have to pay to make outbound calls (but that's expected)"
"Simple to setup and worth the time to use"
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Simply put, it works as advertised.
Good call quality, easy setup with Linksys PAP2 due to provided settings, very reliable
Incoming calls are free, and people have no problem reaching me. Voicemail delivery by e-mail is nice since I can get it anywhere, and works without any problems with my GMail account.
Caller ID information is carried all the way to me, so I can tell who's calling. Not always possible with Voip yet.
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Review by ben14
Posted: 4.2 years ago
member for 6 years, 822 visits, last login: 5 days ago
Boynton Beach,Palm Beach,FL
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"Excellent backup and Laptop phone, love the faxing!"
"Not complete service."
"More than worth more the $5 invested!"
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My exclusive fax number, no dedicated hardware or phone line, I can print out anywhere, certainly from any office, School, Library, Courthouse! I have my Sunrocket calls forwarded to my laptop all the time (software controlled off my laptop). I use Eyebeam (audio only) with Stanaphone works really well, a few more bells and whistles, I haven't had to try the narrow G.729 yet but will need to do so when we are in Mexico.
Oh the fax has failed on occassion, but only during my own test with Word DOC files sent from Word with Micrsoft FAX.
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 Review by Packetloss
Posted: 4.2 years ago
member for 7.4 years, 673 visits, last login: 31 days ago
Harrisonburg,Harrisonburg City,VA
$10 per month
about 999 days
"not many"
"arrogant support staff, no real response"
"stay away from these chumps, use Vbuzzer or Galaxy voice"
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I seen in the VOIP form here how great these guys are, I wonder how many of these great reports are just trolls.
I signed up with these jokers and deposited money in the account after about 2 weeks of the money not showing up I sent 2 support mails that went unanswered about the subject.
So I visited their NAZI like controlled support forums, where if you say something they do not like, then they just delete your post and possibly delete your account by the looks of it.
I seen one guy who questioned why his account was deleted and the responses where horrible, siding on very arrogant. Such as it's a free service if you do not like it go away or because we can delete your account etc.
Then I seen other reports of people that kept losing their number. I knew right then this place was a total joke, between the attitudes of the moderators and admins to the business practices.
My advice stay away from these guys, get a vbuzzer.com or a galaxyvoice.com free for life account with a true phone number that doesn't get deleted when the site feels like deleting it. Too many fish in the sea to put up with such lousy service!
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