  Cabal Premium join:2007-01-21 Boston, MA
| Fantastic service
I couldn't be more pleased with the quality of their CDV offering in the multiple locations I've used it. They hit a real home run with the segregated bandwidth it uses over some of the fly-by-night VoIP companies. -- Anonymous posts are ignored. If you wish to be heard, speak for yourself. Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru? |
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 reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06 Boston, MA
·Comcast
·Comcast Digital Vo..
| I have to say that I agree. I used to have Cox cable, which in its own right was good. They used the same Arris Modem for cable modem and voice that Comcast does. I have to say that I have been impressed by the cable VoIP providers. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox and Cablevision have a good product on their hands. Now if we could get a little lower price, that would be icing on the cake! |
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 chemaupr
join:2005-06-06 Alexandria, VA | reply to Cabal I will stick with the 'fly-by-night' VoIP companies for now. Way more cheap and many more features. |
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  djrobx
join:2000-05-31 Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to reelbigfish Yup. We need the equivalent of a "lite" tier for phone service. Some of us don't need "unlimited" long distance calling.
Something like a 1000 minutes with basic call features (Caller ID/Call Waiting/etc) for $14/month would be perfect.
If they offer something like that, they will pick up a sh*t ton of customers who primarily use their cell phone but want a landline around for occasional calls or faxing.
Time Warner offers a form of lite tier here in CA called "California Unlimited". Factoring in triple-play discounts it works out to $24.95/mo. Its a much better deal than POTS, but still a bit pricier than I'd like. -- Laser eye surgery rocks! I love frickin' laser beams. |
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  en102 Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| I agree... Comcast (at least when it was here in Santa Clarita), cleared out the 'low' end products on cable, and made it uncompetitive. I would have liked to see it 'more' competitive with the likes of Vonage/CallVantage. T-Mobile's UMA service is the way I'd like to see things go... 1 phone for wireless/home. »www.3gamericas.org/English/news_···08&s=ENG Or use something 'cheap' like Skypeout for calling, and a basic POTS line ($10/month) for incoming. Its annoying having separate lines for incoming/outgoing. |
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  djrobx
join:2000-05-31 Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| Yeah I really, really like the T-mobile UMA concept.
For now I do a ghetto-backwards version of "find me", I have my cell phone's "busy forwarding" number set to my landline. What that actually does is forward the call only when I press the hangup button while ringing. That way I can easily "transfer" the incoming call to my landline if I'm home.
If I *don't* presss the hangup button the call still goes to my cell's voicemail.
This works for me since my cell has a good enough signal for the call to get through, its just hard to hold conversations reliably. -- Laser eye surgery rocks! I love frickin' laser beams. |
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  simplykristi Cancer Sucks Premium join:2001-11-28 Metro KC
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Yahoo
·Comcast
| reply to Cabal We've had Comcast's CDV for nearly a year now. The service has been pretty good. We've had some issues but they were rectified with a service call. We dropped AT&T as their billing and customer service were really bad. No more land lines here... VoIP and cell phones all the way. |
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  en102 Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | reply to djrobx I've got too many phone lines:
1. POTS unlimited ($45/month) 2. AT&T cellphone plan - 2 lines ($60/month after taxes) 3. Work Nextel line (+3000 minutes/month Blackberry 7100i) 4. Skypeout ($15/year).
When my DSL and DirecTv contracts are up, I'll probably shed the POTS unlimited as well, and 'may' go Uverse TV / DSL and CallVantage (POTS not required for Uverse) to save a bit. -- Canada = Hollywood North |
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  S_engineer
join:2007-05-16 Chicago, IL
·Comcast
| Looks like the east and west coast are covered nicely, too bad Comcast is at best, erratic in the mid west. I would love to get rid of my landline but it is, where I live, the only reliable source of voice communication. Comcast has signal issues that change on a block by block basis. And since they haven't yet fulfilled their obligations for internet and cable service, why would I try their voice?
This is widely known throughout Chicago! -- Burn a tire, but make sure you buy that carbon offset! |
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 bmn ? ? ? Premium,ExMod 2003-06 join:2001-03-15 hiatus
| reply to Cabal said by Cabal :They hit a real home run with the segregated bandwidth it uses over some of the fly-by-night VoIP companies. With my properly configured network and router, my "fly-by-night" VoIP provider is running quite smoothly, even with a saturated pipe. -- Prove it... Save the Internet Time (NTP) service, use the pool. |
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