Voip

Anyone use Voice Over IP (voip)?

Im looking to get this service for my 4th phone line.

http://www.usa.att.com/callvantage/what/index.jsp

has unlimited long distnce, log files, silent mode, coller id, blocking, and more list goes on..

Anyone know of a good provider? Or use voip?

I just finished a test with Bell Canada using their Internet phone system (Internet Voice), which is similar.

It worked almost flawlessly. The only problem I had was that the "router" sometimes had to be rebooted.

The quality was amazing - better than my landline at times. Talking with cell phone users was just crystal clear.

The bonus was having 2 other "secondary" numbers in other parts of Canada where people calling in would see it as a local number.

The "router" device was portable and could be taken along when I needed to have a phone with me wherever high speed connections were available (didn't try it from the LAN at work).


We're curently testing a VOIP solution at work for our mobile users, and planing to deploy within the next months. ;)

We have it internally at my company connecting our offices. Most of the time it is fine, but as network traffic increases, the quality decreases. On a few occassions, the audio broke up completely. It is also problematic for faxes.

Now I wouldn't necessarily compare a proprietary application to a commercial one, but I would want to try it out over a period of time.

sweet thanx for the reply, I have 2 phone lines, and want a 3rd line (for company) and I thought this would be a good route (if power goes down I have cell phone and 2 other lines :))

vonage has a get up as does net2phone I think. I'ave heard goog things about the vonage setup though cause you can pick an area code that they offer service in (ie family in chicago calls a local number and rings out in cali etc)