Need VoIP advice...

[wnied]

One of my clients who I do repair work on the side, is in the market for an Internet phone. She has a Cable Modem Connection and wants to be able to make international phone calls to her husband overseas. I ask here because I want to know if anyone has experience using an internet phone internationally and can point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,
~wnied~

 

I'm assuming these are the best currrently available.

 

[Kk4JC]

Popular Mechanics did a story on them.
EDIT: Them as in VoIP, not Cisco.
Enjoy

Kk

 

[LeeTJ]

WOW, that Vonage sounds soo good, i just signed up for it. So i can just cancel my local phone and let me cable take care of everything. SWEET.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
WOW, that Vonage sounds soo good,

clark howard has been testing vonage for some weeks now and says good stuff about it

linky

The real deal on Vonage
Clark has been testing out a new product at his home for a few weeks now, just to make sure it works before he tells you his review. It?s from a company called Vonage that offers local and long distance phone service for people who have high speed Internet connection at their home. Vonage is not a phone or Internet company. It?s a third-party corporation that marries the two technologies. Basically, Vonage sends you a router that takes about 10 minutes to hook up to your cable modem or DSL line. Then, you plug a telephone into the router and you?re all set. You have a unlimited local and long distance service that reaches anywhere in the U.S. This is great for people who work from home and make lots of long distance calling. How much does it cost? $40 a month. And if you have a cable modem, you can totally get rid of your local telephone. The quality is great and you can get the product in any state. But you can only get phone numbers and area codes in about a dozen states. The company is spreading to other states, though. So, keep an eye out.

i gotta think about this some more, my local/long distance phone bill is ~$100 a month on top of my cable/internet bill of ~$83 a month

nuts 🙁 no coverage in my area code yet

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
WOW, that Vonage sounds soo good,

clark howard has been testing vonage for some weeks now and says good stuff about it

linky

The real deal on Vonage
Clark has been testing out a new product at his home for a few weeks now, just to make sure it works before he tells you his review. It?s from a company called Vonage that offers local and long distance phone service for people who have high speed Internet connection at their home. Vonage is not a phone or Internet company. It?s a third-party corporation that marries the two technologies. Basically, Vonage sends you a router that takes about 10 minutes to hook up to your cable modem or DSL line. Then, you plug a telephone into the router and you?re all set. You have a unlimited local and long distance service that reaches anywhere in the U.S. This is great for people who work from home and make lots of long distance calling. How much does it cost? $40 a month. And if you have a cable modem, you can totally get rid of your local telephone. The quality is great and you can get the product in any state. But you can only get phone numbers and area codes in about a dozen states. The company is spreading to other states, though. So, keep an eye out.

i gotta think about this some more, my local/long distance phone bill is ~$100 a month on top of my cable/internet bill of ~$83 a month

exactly, this allows me to justify keeping my comcast Pro at $99.00 per month vs Comcast online at $39.00 per month. 🙂

 

[Ciber]

I've been using vonage for months. For 40 a month i get unlimited calling in the us and canada which comes in handy since my fiancee is in canada right now.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Ciber
I've been using vonage for months. For 40 a month i get unlimited calling in the us and canada which comes in handy since my fiancee is in canada right now.

how is the quality?

ever pick up the phone and have no dial tone?

 

[Ciber]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Ciber
I've been using vonage for months. For 40 a month i get unlimited calling in the us and canada which comes in handy since my fiancee is in canada right now.

how is the quality?

ever pick up the phone and have no dial tone?

Sounds just like a normal phone.

Nope.

Cant remember having any problem with the service at all.

 

[FoBoT]

dang, as soon as they offer service in 816 i think i gotta go for that

 

[Ciber]

VOIP Forum at DSLREPORTS(lots of info about Vonage there)

 

[AnGui]

dudes and dudettes, since it's a p2p, i bought the VoIPBlasters from creative and used www.fobbit.com's fobbit software and i've achieved p2p from Canada > US/HK/SG/AU

guess what? it's FREE!!! 🙂

the only thing you pay for is the hardware & internet connection on both ends & configuring software on the computer and router. i guess it really depends on your needs, the way i see it, if i never have to be tied down to one particular telco/isp/vonage/whatever for the rest of my life, means i dont have to pay a dime for p2p voip from now till everlasting.

not sure if there's any more voipblasters out there but i last bought them on ebay

 

[rudeguy]

40 dollars just sounds like a lot for a home phone....but I am kind of out of the loop on land lines cause I havent had one for 3 years...sounds like a good idea, but I was hoping for dirt cheap (<$20)