said by KoolAidAnyone :said by DownTheShore:IF my broadband goes down for any extended period of time - which it's only done once while I was home in the past 3 years - the VOIP calls get routed to my cell phone. Which I then use to to call the broadband provider to tell them about the outage.
And before anyone complains about the cost of cell phone service, I have one of those pay-as-you-go plans, so my cell phone service costs me $100/yr.
$100/year is a pretty high price to pay to insure your dysfunctional Voip service. And of course, you assume that the Voip provider actually does route the calls to the cell phone. In my experience, this is not the case. Most of the vendors I've evaluated are hit-and-miss, and there is no consistency to their performance.
