Vonage is a silly way to do VoIP with Asterisk - you would have to hook their box up to an X100P card on your system, which is preposterous.
Not necessarily preposterous; I would certainly allow that its optimality is arguable.
I agree that Vonage holds a heavy hand over their users, and they prefer to dictate policy instead of listening to their customers, which of course has been the downfall of many a business.
On the other hand, I have quite a few Vonage phones connected to X100P cards: Vonage handles NAT infinitely better than iconnecthere, and although I am also a fairly heavy user of NuFone, having a local DID number in a given city is often preferable to using an 800 number.
One of my Vonage boxes includes "unlimited free calls to area code XXX" and the box that has that feature serves up, via IAX, unlimited free calls to our local area code from any of my cooperating asterisk instances.
My opinion is that Vonage/X100P is pretty useful in quite a number of cases, and after much piddling I am unable to get the combination of call quality, NAT hardiness, and local DID/calling from any other service I have played with so far.
B.
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