VOIP Phone service
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I haven't tried SkypeOut yet, but it's tempting. The rate for calling a landline in the US is much less than any cell or POTS calling rate. At $.02 a minute it beats the $.20 (SprintPCS) or $.06 (Citizens Communications) rate just to call my mother 250 miles away. Crazier still, to call a hotel across the river costs $2.50 via landline, even though I can just as easily tie a note to a rock and throw it from shore to the hotel. X| "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
The quality is excellent but I assume that it would degrade the lower your bandwidth. I'm on a Wireless Network that covers much of the south east of Ireland and I get speeds just over standard DSL and there is very rarely a noticeable lag. You should give it a go. Regards, Brian Dela :-) Now Bloging![^]
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Anybody using VOIP Phone service from [Vonage](http://www.vonage.com/index.php
/)[[^](http://www.vonage.com/index.php
/)] or Lingo[^]? I want to move my phone line to VOIP but little bit hesitant about it. Any suggestions?
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".I have Vonage and have had it for about a year. I am thoroughly enjoying the service. My wife's family lives in Canada and it doesn't cost me anything more than the monthly fee of only $25 to call there. Plus she has family in Switzerland and only costs about 3 cents to there. I can plug the box into any phone outlet in the house, then I've got phone service at any jack in the house. Let me know if you want to sign up, I will refer you. You will get a free month of service, plus I will too. It is a win/win situation all around. cmcdavid@hotmail.com Thanks, Chris
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I have Vonage and have had it for about a year. I am thoroughly enjoying the service. My wife's family lives in Canada and it doesn't cost me anything more than the monthly fee of only $25 to call there. Plus she has family in Switzerland and only costs about 3 cents to there. I can plug the box into any phone outlet in the house, then I've got phone service at any jack in the house. Let me know if you want to sign up, I will refer you. You will get a free month of service, plus I will too. It is a win/win situation all around. cmcdavid@hotmail.com Thanks, Chris
My question is should I keep the SBC Phone service for month or two then cancel the service only when I satisfy with Vonage? If I decide to keep the phone service, Can both phone services work at the same time? :^) Go ahead and send the referral to me. I will decide on the service by end of this week.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
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I use a thing called dialpad. It works well. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
Ramanan Sivan wrote: I use a thing called dialpad. I used it during the dotcom era.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
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Ramanan Sivan wrote: I use a thing called dialpad. I used it during the dotcom era.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Looks like they survived the dotcom bust :) "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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My question is should I keep the SBC Phone service for month or two then cancel the service only when I satisfy with Vonage? If I decide to keep the phone service, Can both phone services work at the same time? :^) Go ahead and send the referral to me. I will decide on the service by end of this week.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".I went with a provider called SunRocket a couple of months ago. We've been very pleased so far. I got in before they were offering this deal, but I think now you can pay for the full year up front and it comes out to like $17/month. That includes unlimited national calling and a pretty good allowance of international minutes per month. They offer that deal risk free, so if you do not like it you can get out immediately and not be stuck.
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My question is should I keep the SBC Phone service for month or two then cancel the service only when I satisfy with Vonage? If I decide to keep the phone service, Can both phone services work at the same time? :^) Go ahead and send the referral to me. I will decide on the service by end of this week.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
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Anybody using VOIP Phone service from [Vonage](http://www.vonage.com/index.php
/)[[^](http://www.vonage.com/index.php
/)] or Lingo[^]? I want to move my phone line to VOIP but little bit hesitant about it. Any suggestions?
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".I've been using Vonage for over a year now and I am very pleased. So have several people in my neighborhood, and they are very pleased too. Verizon and AT&T are also offering very similar services. Packet8 is another service you can use. The only caveat is if you have wireless broadband, the service can be very "choppy" because of the protocol (UDP) used for the realtime voice sampling. Since UDP doesn't gaurantee delivery, those packets, when/if they arrive will be dropped if they're out of sequence. Hence the voice will "stutter", sometimes to the point of being extremely unintelligable. But that is very rare. The other main thing I like about VOIP (at least with vonage) is the ability to take the adapter box anywhere there is an internet connection and VOILA! you have a phone. So, when you go overseas, you can bring your "home" phone with you and your friends/family can call you for free. links:
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I have been using Vonage for a few months now. The sound quality is better than my old Verizon. The main reason I chose Vonage over Lingo was that it was cheaper to Bangalore. You can get rid of your land line. Install was a snap prashu
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I've been using Vonage for over a year now and I am very pleased. So have several people in my neighborhood, and they are very pleased too. Verizon and AT&T are also offering very similar services. Packet8 is another service you can use. The only caveat is if you have wireless broadband, the service can be very "choppy" because of the protocol (UDP) used for the realtime voice sampling. Since UDP doesn't gaurantee delivery, those packets, when/if they arrive will be dropped if they're out of sequence. Hence the voice will "stutter", sometimes to the point of being extremely unintelligable. But that is very rare. The other main thing I like about VOIP (at least with vonage) is the ability to take the adapter box anywhere there is an internet connection and VOILA! you have a phone. So, when you go overseas, you can bring your "home" phone with you and your friends/family can call you for free. links: