My roomie ordered Vonage before consulting me the resident geek. He had it for a while now uninstalled because the modem is in my room and I told him he needed to ask Vonage for a solution to have a cordless phone connected in the OTHER rooms....
Vonage was unhelpful but I came up with a solution. We went out and bought a base phone with an additional handset. I connected the base and voila...the other hand set was ready to go and make and receive calls over the internet.
Another new solution I might get for myself is called Magicjack...it is about 20 bucks a year for unlimited calling throughout the US and canada through your internet. And I like it since there is no dumb modem to connect. You just connect a little USB device to your PC that is connected to the Net and plug in a phone. That's it http://www.magicjack.com/6/index.asp
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Nooooooo to Vonage at our house. Our neighbors and children had to call us long distance. The neighbor lived one street over. My husband office also had to call and fax long distance.
The communication w/ Vonage was impossible. We changed numbers three times. When we changed to no long distance which should have been local, they charged us for calls...
Maybe they have improved????? Or perhaps it was our area??? Hey, when we cut it off, all of a sudden we were bombarded w/ communication. No more Vonage for us.
I have a plan with my local cable company for thier phone service.
It uses VOIP and everywhere in Canada & the USA is a local call (NO LONG DISTANCE CHARGES!)
I got Vonage when I moved into our new house almost two years ago. The first six months I hated it because the quality was terrible. It did not work most of the time. We could hear people or they could here us but not both at the same time a lot of the time.
However during this same first six months our Comcast broadband internet connection was terrible also.
After getting Comcast out several times to work on their connection they finally really fixed it and not only did my high speed internet connection start acting like one my Vonage phone suddenly started working flawlessly and has for the last year plus now.
It takes a few beats for the connection to make as opposed to a land line but it works just fine and for thirty bucks a month I have unlimited local and long distance calling.
I got Vonage when I moved into our new house almost two years ago. The first six months I hated it because the quality was terrible. It did not work most of the time. We could hear people or they could here us but not both at the same time a lot of the time.
However during this same first six months our Comcast broadband internet connection was terrible also.
After getting Comcast out several times to work on their connection they finally really fixed it and not only did my high speed internet connection start acting like one my Vonage phone suddenly started working flawlessly and has for the last year plus now.
It takes a few beats for the connection to make as opposed to a land line but it works just fine and for thirty bucks a month I have unlimited local and long distance calling.
I have to say installation was flawless. I immediately called my roomie on his cell and it , as you said, took a little bit at first but the connection was just fine.
I really want to try this other thing out though
__________________ Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
I have had Vonage for 2 years or so and no troubles ever. $32.00 a month once all the local taxes and fees are added and unlimited calls to anywhere in the USA, Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe.
not sure why someone would have to call me long distance as someone stated above. That sounds dumb. They gave us a local number and everything has been fine. You can even pay to have a local number set up in several places so that those people in those areas can call you local rather than long distance.
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