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Jamestown, KY |  vonage is great
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 | | Re: vonage is great That is great!.....How is the audio quality?.....Maybe we wont have to have cable........just use their network to get phone service.....then I can get direct tv..........I see some big pluses for us here........keep the info coming........... | |
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: vonage is great Go to the VoIP forum. All the plusses and minuses are there. And you don't need dialtone to get DSL...you could pay a couple of extra bucks and get SDSL...the VoIP savings more than pays for it.
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| | | | Re: vonage is great DUDE, WHY DOES IT SAY THAT VONAGE IS A GOOD ALTERNATIVER FOR THE SECOND LINE? WHAT IS THE RELIABLITY? REALLY. WOULD THIS BE GOOD FOR MY MOTHER? | |
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: vonage is great said by Mr_Hanky00:
DUDE, WHY DOES IT SAY THAT VONAGE IS A GOOD ALTERNATIVER FOR THE SECOND LINE? WHAT IS THE RELIABLITY? REALLY. WOULD THIS BE GOOD FOR MY MOTHER?
All caps aside, I use it for a primary line. I haven't had any reliability problems and I've had it almost 5 months. It's as reliable as your broadband provider, so your performance may vary. Vonage seems to be marketing their service as a primary line service since they're pushing the fact that you can keep your current phone number is most markets.
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Brooklyn, NY | Vonage recommends you keep a pots line because they do not have 911 service! | |
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: vonage is great said by ayal5:
Vonage recommends you keep a pots line because they do not have 911 service!
Where do they say that? I didn't see it.
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| | | IS VONAGE A CLEC NOW TO CABLE? WILL CABLE START OFFERING VOIP AND BE REGULATED? I BET MICHEAL POWELL WILL WANT HIS HANDS ON THIS GOOD DEAL TOO. I SEE REGULATION COMING ON SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! | |
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: IS VONAGE A CLEC NOW TO CABLE? WILL CABLE D00D!!!! | |
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| | | | | Re: IS VONAGE A CLEC NOW TO CABLE? WILL CABLE Oh ok | |
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| Re: IS VONAGE A CLEC NOW TO CABLE? WILL CABLE Remember the main requirements for the Cisco box...for highest call quality they want 90kbps during the time your making or receiving a call. You would also need decent latency (below 150ms is best). Vonage is in NJ so even a half-assed provider would work for you.
I have both cable and a WISP and it works great with both. Call quality for me is better than Verizon because we have such crap line quality here. With DU I would get a best of 26,400 and the lines were full of noise and crosstalk. I personally don't have any voice quality issues with the Cisco setup and people I talk to can't tell it's VoIP...just a noise-free line.
Setup of the Cisco box is pretty brainless. It's plug and play. Hooking it up for all house wiring is a little more complicated but not very difficult...just requires disconnecting the house telco wiring from the CO (done at the test box). For a simple install most people just use an expandable cordless phone system. I just disconnected the wires at the box and plugged the Cisco box into a phone jack. So all jacks on that line are live for VoIP.
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