The route an Obie/Google Voice call takes
infin8loop:
Quote from: Lateralg on February 15, 2012, 04:43:45 pm
.... and helping Stan, my 91-year-old friend, undo what he did to his PC. ....
Priceless.
lk96:
Just a personal opinion on some of the options related to OOMA and Vonage.
I had the "pleasure" to try/use both of them:
About 5 months ago I decided to move from Comcast voice to OOMA: I was basically
motivated to eliminate the exorbitant Comcast voice charges and rental fees
for their modem. But I will say that OOMA was unusable day in/day out.
Really crappy/choppy quality, hit or miss availability etc etc. Truely unusable.
It's possible it was just me but at least I wanted to volunteer this as a data point.
After a few back and forth with tech support I gave up and returned equipment, I cancelled
OOMA and moved phone # to Vonage.
On the Vonage front I have to say that I'm pretty satisfied: reliable service,
solid and consistent voice quality. The main reason that Vonage
and a pseudo-LINE is still in place in my house is because of my other "house customers" that have
zero tolerance for a phone failing to ring or to call. I pay $26/month and that includes
free calls to about 60 countries.
If it was just up to me, I wouldn't be using either. But if you dont have a choice, between the two of them,
I would go with Vonage.
L.
carl:
Quote from: Rick on February 13, 2012, 01:27:23 pm
Quote from: Lateralg on February 13, 2012, 01:20:20 pm
Is losing both land line & internet at same time really rare?
To your point, anyone with a POTS line should have a cord phone plugged into at least one of the phone jacks in the home.
Except Rick, in such a dire emergency when you have no time to get to the other side of your house where the corded phone is or you are immobilized the whole thing makes no sense. You are , in most cases, better of just carrying your cell phone with you all the time. Except in situation when you can reasonably expect 911 use combined with an extreme situation those worries are a bit absurd.I live without a POTS since almost 3 years and frankly, I have much more serious worries than that. :)
Lateralg:
This request may go beyond the intent of this thread. If so, I hope our administrator gives me some advice.
I'd like feedback from people who have used a VOIP service. Specifically:
* What do you LIKE about the service?
* What did you DISLIKE about the service? (If "DISLIKE" is too strong, state the improvements you'd like to see.)
* Initial cost
* Annual cost
I'm hoping for results from:
* MagicJack (orriginal)
* MagicJack+
* Ooma
* Vonage
* Skype
* CallCentric
* Obi
* Google Voice alone
Or, even better, a link to a similar study.
MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: Lateralg on February 23, 2012, 02:34:03 pm
Or, even better, a link to a similar study.
Not a study, but you can find customer reviews of many VoIP providers at http://www.broadbandreports.com/isplist?t=voip (note the "Reviews" column in the chart, and click on the number) — however, be aware that some of them haven't had an update in years. Those of you that have more recent experience with a provider could post updated comments there, if you like.
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