My father is tickled with Vonage...

[SunnyD]

He's on the phone with his wife right now.

I'm down for the weekend doing the hamfest with him, and on the way in I was mentioning today that Vonage slashed the price of their in-store kits and told him how their plans went, and we just happened to be driving by a Circuit City and he said "Let's do it". He was definitely thrilled with unlimited calling at $29.99 with nearly none of the taxes thrown on the regular phone bills.

Just actived his box about 30 minutes ago, and it's off and running. Now all he needs to do is unplug Verizon from the network interface outside and tell them to shove off.

Sorry about the no-referrals on this one, but the in-store ones don't seem to let you.

Chalk up another one on Vonage...

 

[TheWart]

great, hope it works well for you. considering making the plunger over here too.

 

[SeaSerpent]

Whats it cost for the equipment?

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Whats it cost for the equipment?

$30 activation equipment is free. I've had mine for about 8 months and love it.

 

[FleshLight]

What equipment is needed? A microphone + ???

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
What equipment is needed? A microphone + ???

A router type thing. Plugs into your network and your phone plugs into that.

 

[LordSnailz]

The only drawback I see to is that you just need to make sure your BB ISP is realiable. If your BB goes down, then your phone is down as well ... *I think* =)

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Whats it cost for the equipment?

$30 activation equipment is free. I've had mine for about 8 months and love it.

ACTUALLY - that is only if you order directly through Vonage. Like I said, we purchased the kit from Circuit City, which is currently running $89.99 - $50MIR = $39.99, and it's $0 activation with the kit. Supposedly the CC folks said that you get 2 free months as well with the kit.

So far it's working well. I plugged it into my dad's network a little early, so I thought there was some cabling problem, I unhooked everything then hooked it all back up and it booted in a little under 30 seconds - placed a call to the house landline and everything worked, without even forwarding any ports on the router.

Already logged about 3 hours of what would be long distance calls this evening.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

yea if the internet goes down, you're screwed. i havent had a problem with comcast (KNOCK ON WOOD), but I'm thinking of switching to verizon dsl.

 

[myopex]

so does this mean u wouldn't need to return the fone or get hit w/ a 100?$ cancellation fee

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
He's on the phone with his wife right now.

I'm down for the weekend doing the hamfest with him, and on the way in I was mentioning today that Vonage slashed the price of their in-store kits and told him how their plans went, and we just happened to be driving by a Circuit City and he said "Let's do it". He was definitely thrilled with unlimited calling at $29.99 with nearly none of the taxes thrown on the regular phone bills.

Just actived his box about 30 minutes ago, and it's off and running. Now all he needs to do is unplug Verizon from the network interface outside and tell them to shove off.

Sorry about the no-referrals on this one, but the in-store ones don't seem to let you.

Chalk up another one on Vonage...

"He was definitely thrilled with unlimited calling at $29.99 with nearly none of the taxes thrown on the regular phone bills."

Unfortunately that won't last long.

They will be forced to start tacking on all kinds of "Extra" fees such as the bogus Universal Service Charge, E-911, Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee, etc etc. It will be right up there to $50 in a heartbeat.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

hmm, I've never heard of it before.

If I were to do it I'd have to do the unlimited local and unlimited long plan as their "regional" defintion sucks.

I live in southern indiana. area code 812. I like about 5 minutes away from louisville, ky, area code 502. If I were to get a 812 number, if I called louisville, it would be long distance, if I called my fiance's 502 number it would be long distance for pete's sake. that's stupid.

 

[aircooled]

I've been looking into Vonage for a while. Just recently got the wife onboard, so we may take the plunge soon. I would love to say goodbye to Sprint completely, I hate them....

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
hmm, I've never heard of it before.

If I were to do it I'd have to do the unlimited local and unlimited long plan as their "regional" defintion sucks.

I live in southern indiana. area code 812. I like about 5 minutes away from louisville, ky, area code 502. If I were to get a 812 number, if I called louisville, it would be long distance, if I called my fiance's 502 number it would be long distance for pete's sake. that's stupid.

Not only is it no longer long distance but you can have any number you want. You can have a 502 number for the hell of it.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: SunnyD
He's on the phone with his wife right now.

I'm down for the weekend doing the hamfest with him, and on the way in I was mentioning today that Vonage slashed the price of their in-store kits and told him how their plans went, and we just happened to be driving by a Circuit City and he said "Let's do it". He was definitely thrilled with unlimited calling at $29.99 with nearly none of the taxes thrown on the regular phone bills.

Just actived his box about 30 minutes ago, and it's off and running. Now all he needs to do is unplug Verizon from the network interface outside and tell them to shove off.

Sorry about the no-referrals on this one, but the in-store ones don't seem to let you.

Chalk up another one on Vonage...

"He was definitely thrilled with unlimited calling at $29.99 with nearly none of the taxes thrown on the regular phone bills."

Unfortunately that won't last long.

They will be forced to start tacking on all kinds of "Extra" fees such as the bogus Universal Service Charge, E-911, Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee, etc etc. It will be right up there to $50 in a heartbeat.

Well, noone can for sure say what the FCC is going to do in the future, but I believe the house has said they want hands kept off VOIP services. I know for a fact that Vonage is immune to the USC fee until the rule gets rewritten, as it's for traditional telco service only.

 

[Nitemare]

Got it and love it myself. The bastards, Verizon, were bleeding me for over 30 a month for just local service with no long distance.

 

[ctcsoft]

packet8.net is much better than vonage and cheaper too.

reliable? yes.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: jmoe782
packet8.net is much better than vonage and cheaper too.

reliable? yes.

yea but do they have the 911 feature?

 

[Zombie]

so you won't have phone if you lose power or cable connection. That kinda sucks .

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: Zombie
so you won't have phone if you lose power or cable connection. That kinda sucks .

My buddy told me they would be able to forward the calls to a secondary phone (cellphone).
He uses phonom, but I'm reading about them and it's not looking good.

 

[faZZter]

So if I have Verizon DSL can I still cancel my regular phone service and use vonage with the DSL?

Or will Verizon try to make me stay on their normal phone service too?

 

[Zombie]

DSL requires you to have an existing Phone connection (I think).

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Zombie
DSL requires you to have an existing Phone connection (I think).

Except for certain business plans, yes. Even then you technically have a phone line, you just can't make any calls on it.

 

[farmercal]

For those of you that have this service....did you cancel your entire local phone service and use this Vonage for your local AND long distance calls? I am currently paying for local and unlimited long distance and pay about $80 a month and it looks like you guys are saying I can only pay $29.99 a month...true or false?

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: farmercal
For those of you that have this service....did you cancel your entire local phone service and use this Vonage for your local AND long distance calls? I am currently paying for local and unlimited long distance and pay about $80 a month and it looks like you guys are saying I can only pay $29.99 a month...true or false?

true ... depending on who you talk to, quality can be good or bad. It really depends on your internet connection.

i am tempted to jump on the bandwagon, but I'm not liking the fact that my phone system wil be down in the event of my internet connection or electricity being down.