From what I saw the PC doesn't need to be running. We have AT&Ts UVerse
which is on 24/7. I have a base station with three cordless satellite
phones, hopefully it will work with these.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winterlight" <winterli...@winterlight.org>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:25
Subject: Re: [H] Internet Telephone Services - Ooma etc
I have a Magic Jack account and yes, it is what they claim it to be. I have
all you describe, and more, but for a single phone. NOTE >>You can not
split the signal into multiple phones like a land line, but you can run a
single base station with a bunch of cordless phones. I am running it from a
old Thinkpad T23 running XP PRO that I also run security cameras on. Of
course, if your internet connection is down, or your PC is not running
neither is the phone. With Magic Jack I can move it to whatever PC I want,
it creates two virtual CD drives and runs from that. I like it so much I
paid 60 bucks for a five year subscription.
At 09:57 AM 10/13/2009, you wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with Ooma or any of the other internet voip
telephone products? They claim that with a one-time purchase of the Ooma
device that you can basically disconnect the phone service and everything
will run over your high-speed internet. They claim you can have the same
services such as call-waiting, caller ID, 911 service, along with
unlimited local and long distance calling across the US for free, meaning
just the cost of the high-speed internet.
Thoughts?
http://www.ooma.com/
