Does anyone have any experience using Vonage.com for local and long distance phone service?  Are they good?
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Vonage is awesome!  I now work from home and have them for both our home line and my work line.  When you get a business line from them you also get a free dedicated fax line.  The work one I've had to reset a couple of times (unplug it then plug it back in) but it's no big deal.  The price is amazing and since we live in PA and my family's in TN it's a huge savings.\n\nThe main problem you might run into is if they can get you a number that's local to where you are.  Even if you're area code is available you're prefix might not be.  This can mean that when your next door neighbor calls it's long distance for them.  We get around it by telling people when they call we can call them right back since it's free for us.
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I think your asking about VOIP. Voice Over Internet Protocol???\n\nA close friend of mine just got it 6 months ago from Vonage.\nand my sister just got VOIP from Shaw.ca last month..\n\nBetter, Worse or the same?\nactually its all three, depending on what you want out of it and how much you use it.\n\n$$$ savings depends on what services you already have on your landline.. If you total up ALL the services that most VOIP company's provide (included) VS your Landline company (at&t, bell, etc etc).. the savings can be between $10 to $50!! (keep in mind that most avg people dont subscribe to "answering service, caller ID, Call forwarding, long distance saver", so its not really a savings you get, but just a better "bang for your buck")\n\nVoice clarity:\nnot bad!, no worse than my cell phone..\nbut unlike a landline, their ARE DROPOUTS!\n\nWould I recommend it?\nIf you have a second phone like a cellphone anyways,\nIf you call long distance a lot (more then 10 minutes a month).\nIf having Caller ID, Fowarding, or Digital Answering Service is a huge need for you..\nand you can survive not having a landline if the power goes out..\n\nthen VOIP is a very good deal.
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Yep. Just goto one of the providers. I use BroadVoice for my phone. I have no land line other than my VOIP through them.
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Of the three you mentioned, Vonage is still the best.  I tried Sunrocket and had nothing but trouble with it.\n\nPresently I'm using 1Touchtone.com.  Check them out at http://www.1touchtone.com  I've been very satisfied with them.  They are much more likely to have local numbers in small towns than the major players such as Vonage or AT&T, neither of which has local numbers in my area.
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well with anything there are good and bad.\nWhat I have for 100. a month\n2000 anytime min-\nFree nights and weekend from 7pm to 7am and free from friday7pm till monday 7am\nvoice mail/call waiting/3 way/text mail\ne-mail/\nand there is no long distance charge It covers the whole USA\nAnd for that price it dont matter If im in Ohio or Califorina There is no romein charge\nSo it aint to bad. Its Cingular Wirless some have better deals some dont.\nAnd some Facts about the Phone\nIt will not make you blow up if you put gas in your gas. \nIt will not give you brain damage\neven though people say this does happen there is not enough to back it up firmly\nAlso with a Cell most are GPS this means Big brother (The goverment ) could find you if they wanted to. Any Gps system Can be found right down to your cell.\nAlso Battery talk time is about 3 to 4Hours Pending on the phone.\nAnd some areas the phone dont work that great.\nBut also alot of people Use there cell and get rid of there home phone. I was spending 120 a month+ on my home Bill I have a construction company. And I switched to the cell and dropped the home phone. I Never have went over my Min- And return Calls after 7. Plus Important calls I dont miss anymore. Alot of People call me and want to talk right there and then. Since I Switched My Company Has made more Money since I didnt lose new customers. \nBut In the end. Home phone and cell phone they both have there ups and downs. \nBut I can say 1 thing for sure. 2 Yrs ago A friend got hurt and We were at a job and I had no other way to call 911 but my cell. In the end I was told By the ER Doc If I would have drove him or waited any longer he would be dead.\nSo Cell Phones Can save your life.\nOh my God I just saw the other answers. \nDONT GET ONE YOU WILL DIE!!!!\nNo you should not use it to have a fight with the wife while drivein your car. DUh \nAnd your boss could call you---- You only give the number out to who you want to have it. \nAs long as you have common sence and im sure you do. You will be ok you will not die. You will not wake up with a tummor the size of Ohio in your head.\nAnd to anyone else who thinks this.\nEvery day we use PC watch Sat-tv listen to the radio. \nPolice use radios/cbs /Wireless net \nIf this happens 24/7 and it affects everyone unless you live in a lead house how much do you think a little cell phone is gonna do.\nAnd the gas pump. Your cell dont have that much juice- If you take your speaker wires off your speaker and touch them together you will get a spark 100 times bigger then your cell. If your car is running there is spark. \nNow I know alot of people have seen the Photo with the car on fire at the gas pump That (WAS) caused ny the cell phone.\nHas anyone ever heard of a computer and a photo program and the word Crop???? I guess what we all see we should all belive NOT
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Yes.  Several VOIP providers offer cheap international calling and unlimited USA/Canada Calling.  They also offer free calling to their other VOIP subscribers regardless of location.\n\nYou can compare them here:\n\nhttp://metrot1.com/content/view/21/32/
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hopefully your using yahoo messenger voice chat ? \n\nIt's free - You only have to pay the cost to be connected to the internet. No long distance charges to talk to anybody anywhere. \nTalk to several people - You can talk to several people at the same time. It's a great way to do long distance family reunions. \nGreat sound quality - Try it and see how it works! The sound quality is great even if you are talking to somebody on the other side of the world!
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Vonage has a WiFi phone available that I think is pretty much what you are looking for.  \n\nhttp://vonage.com/device.php?type=F1000\n\nHope this helps.
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Answer is CISCO . If you are looking for VOIP service at home. Lot of Cable company like comcast provides VOIP phone service . Also you can use Vonage for your Home as a VOIP Phone service provider . Voice quality is excellent.
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I use skype i find it pretty good  i havent tried the voicemail service yet  because you have to pay for it.\n\nBut other than that the sound quality is, in my opinion just as good as my normal phone.\n\nright now skype has a promotional offer where skype out calls from within the USA and Canada are free.
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They are probably cheaper, but their reliability isn't so good yet.  For proper VOIP you need to have a the voice packets marked as high Quality of Service so they get faster passage through the internet, and there really isn't any good system for doing this yet.
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You can be online and still use the phone.\n\nI haven't ever used Vonage and the like, and never will.  About half my friends who have used services like that swear by them---And whenever they call me it sounds like they're on a regular phone.  The other half, however, sound like they're calling from inside a submarine five fathoms down on a cordless phone from the 80's.  It's a hit or miss thing in my experience, which is something I wouldn't like from my home phone service.\n\nOh, and the little 911 disclaimers at the bottom of their TV ads?  Take them seriously.  There have been a few cases of serious injury and even death because VoIP 911 services have failed miserably.
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i would try the local phone company.
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I had Vonage connected to my Time Warner Road Runner connection.  It worked fantastic.  I never had a problem with it.  I discontinued the use of it only because I don't use the phone much.  You can change how much bandwidth the telephone adapter uses so it does not affect your surfing and your surfing does not affect your phone calls.
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The most common one is of course Vonage.  I have Earthlink TrueVoice service along with Earthlink Highspeed Internet, and I absolutely love it!\n\nIt uses your existing phone, but it gets configured to work through your cable internet connection, so you have to have broadband internet for it to work.\n\nThe service I have costs me $25 for unlimited local and long distance calling to anywhere in the US.  I also have the option of paying $15 for 500 local and long distance minutes.  Not bad considering my other phone company was going to charge me $55 for unlimited local and long distance.  \n\nSo, if you like broadband internet, it's worth it, and you should still have enough money left over with the savings to be able to afford a cell phone, if you want it.
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I tried it--the Verizon DSL, that is. Is that what you're talking about?\n\nWhen it worked, the DSL was great. I didn't notice any significant changes from my previous broadband service. However, after a few days, something happened between my computer and the DSL software. I wasn't able to download anything and my computer's performance slowed to something less than a crawl.\n\nI'm not Geek Squad material but I do know my way around a computer system. After running all the diagnostics and disk/system cleanup stuff I had at my disposal, I called Verizon's tech support.\n\nTwo weeks and wh oknows how many phone calls later, they determined there were too many processes running on my computer and I'd need to call in a private tech to fix things.\n\nProblem is, I had changed NOTHING on my computer other than adding the Verizon software. So just for kicks, I deleted it. And guess what. My computer was fixed. I re-connected the broadband line and lo, my internet access was lightning quick.\n\nSo, I got rid of DSL. I really wish it had worked for me because the price is tough to beat. Around here, Comcast has the monopoly on high-speed broadband access. Bleah.\n\nIf you decide to try DSL, I hope it works as well for you as it did for me at first (and that yours never DOES do anything weird like mine did, LOL.)