I'm tired of paying $40/month for a traditional line. Does anyone have suggestions for a good VOIP service provider?
Suggestions for a home based VOIP phone service?
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I know quite a few people with magic jack and they like it.
I used Vontage for a while. Really liked the service, but since opening my own business and needing a service with extensions and what not I switched to a local VOIP company.
If Vontage had the business features I needed I would definitely still be with them.
If Vontage had the business features I needed I would definitely still be with them.
i have vonage. had it for over 5 years already with no real issues. i pay about $30+ a month for 1 line though. good thing is we can use it to make international calls for much less than a standard phone line, which i dont have at all any more. just vonage and cell phones.
with vonage, you can manage the features they offer online, which is pretty nice.
with vonage, you can manage the features they offer online, which is pretty nice.
An Obihai box + Google Voice is hard to beat. Free long distance, texting, voicemail transcription, separate VM greetings for different contact groups, the ability to easily forward calls to multiple phone numbers, etc.
wow. thanks for the referral. im reading about it right now. might have to order one up. im thinking we could buy one also for relatives in germany and mexico and make free obi to obi international calls. :thumbsup:
Looks like it's basically just a one time fee for the devise and that's it. Correct?
Correct. Now, Google may make you pay for local/long distance in the future, but they've yet to do that for several years now.
GV is a really great service. It integrates really well with Android, but not so well with iPhones.
I see that Verizon's website states that their Home Phone Connect service isn't compatible with home security systems, fax machines or cable DVR systems. Is this the case with all VOIP services?
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I have no idea how good it is, but it's not very expensive.
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Would you happen to know if it will work with a fax machine? Perhaps allow a second dedicated fax line?
Sid, I went to their website forums and found this, which might at least partially answer your fax question. "Then, at the far-end telco CO, the digitized data is converted back into analog tones, and ends up at the monitoring center, with varying degrees of accuracy, depending on codec used, connection quality, etc. This is the same reason fax transmissions over VoIP are troublesome at times.
It sounds like the quality of the connection may be a factor. I'm waiting for a return call from Obihai support, because I am curious as well.
It sounds like the quality of the connection may be a factor. I'm waiting for a return call from Obihai support, because I am curious as well.
I don't believe it will, but I don't know of any VOIP service that does. I used to use my cell phone as a fax modem before the digital conversion. While still on analog service, it worked fine. Once the switch to digital, it would never dial out.
I can try hooking my fax machine up to the box in a little bit and see if it works. I use a cloud service for fax now. I like being able to send/receive faxes from my smartphone or anywhere else.
Let me know what you find out. $40 per month is too much for the service I'm receiving IMO. I feel I'm overpaying for all my services from Time Warner.
Running vonage for many years and as far as security systems they had to put a wireless box for my security system. Only problem is if I am taxing my Internet and someone calls the call will breakup some till I stop. For me only run into the problem maybe once a year.
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