26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
4:32 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Curt vendel wrote:
I know this is way off-topic, but if anyone would
reply off-list:
Just curious if anyone here has tried Vonage broadband phone service, I'm
considering moving to it, but I want to hear from anyone who may be using it
and since this is the pulse of geekdome, I figured somebody else out there
may have tried them out or is going to and I could get some off-list
responses and feedback, thanks.
I do, all the time... works fine, even from here (Holland). I talk
to my son every day, at least an hour, and often we keep an 'open
call' like if it were a baby-phone, so I can hear him.
Setup was a nightmare, mostly because I got the Amazon package, and
their Amazon-based registration stuff failed. After that, however,
it worked fine, and has worked fine, since.
Small comment: although I got the package with the Cisco ATA186
VoIP box, and use that when I am in the U.S., I did ask some people
at Cisco (OK, so I work for em, agreed ;-) to decrypt my config
file, and configured those same settings into my CallManager
configuration here in Holland, because we are Cisco VoIP based
to begin with... this allows me to use my standard phone stuff
with that line.
Cheers,
Fred
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