 linxer
join:2000-05-20
Campbellsville, KY | reply to phatTweaker
Re: Internet Phone I've had Vonage for about a year now. I am on the Insight 3000/128 plan and mine works fine. Even with heavy net usage, up or down it works great. I dumped my local phone company and use Vonage alone. My 911 service works just like my phone 911 did. I tried Broadvox and my opinion is that it is an inferior product compared to Vonage. Packet8 device should be here in a few days and Ill let ya know my experience with them. |
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| I have a stupid question. Do you have to use special phones how does this work is there like a router that changes the ethernet cable into a regular phone cable? |
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IGGYNo Guru Just Here To HelpPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
3 edits | »www.sipura.com
»www.broadvoxdirect.com/
»VoIP: Voice over IP
Those are just a few places to get information. You can use special phones with most providers. But special phones aren't needed. You just hook up a device like the Sipura to your router then a regular phone to that device.
The Sipura is just 1 example of a device a provider can use. Other providers use a Cisco product or other devices. I think some providers even support the use of multiple devices. Meaning if you own the device you can switch from provider to provider.
The only stupid question is a question not asked in my opinion. We all have to learn somehow. If you don't ask questions or seek answers to your question = how would you learn?
Providers have multiple types of pricing and features. Vonage is probably the best known. But a quick glance of this forum »VOIP Tech Chat shows that like any growing company - they are seeing some growing pains. Other providers have run into those same pains as well.
With our provider we pay $19.95 a month for free local and regional calling. We get 300 long distance minutes a month that work for the USA or Canada. We get a friends and family number - meaning my family down in Florida can have a local number to call me here in Illinois. So it's only a local toll call for them. My provider only provides friends and family numbers in areas they serve. So that feature can be limiting depending on your needs. Example of another negative = they don't serve my city. So I had to go for a Ottawa,IL number. The closest city to me that they provide service in. This doesn't matter to me - since local and regional is free. But it does make it to were your local calls ( from your real area - - for me Springfield,IL ) would be a charge for those that call you. We just use caller id for this. Have the people do 2 rings so they show up on caller id then we call them back if were home.:)
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| Thanks alot your info and websites really helped. |
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| Is there any VoIP service that has service in Southern Indiana (812) area code? I live just on the other side of the Ohio river from Louisville KY. I have checked Vonage, Packet8, Broadvox. Vonage and Packet8 can give me a Louisville (502) number but I would be long distance to anyone near me in 812. The telco (SBC) has it set up to where us in 812 in our area can call 502 numbers as a local call, with no 10 digit dialing required. |
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 fancydancerPerception is realityPremium
join:2002-08-28
Springfield, IL | It looks like you have exhausted all possibilities but you may find more information here (as mentioned previously above) »VOIP Tech Chat
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