>i can recommend the vonage plan. i've never had an issue with the service itself, i.e. lag, echo, voicemail. our first router crapped out on us and we had a new one in 24 hours.
>like the above post said, make sure to disconnect the main line that goes out to the phone company's CO before you plug into the main box. i used to do this, until i purchased a"set" of phones [one main phone plugged into the vonage box and 3 satellite phones] On 1/20/06, Barry Gaskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > My wife wants to save some money and get digital phone service. We are > currently paying about $50 per month to BellSouth for local phone and a > few > dollars a month to Quest for what little long distance we use. My wife > and > daughter are using virgin Mobile for there cell phones (which they plan to > keep). We have roadrunner cable / broadband. I have a coyote linux > firewall feeding into network hubs feeding every room with internet > (windows > boxes for wife/kids and linux boxes in my computer room). > > The time warner digital phone service is $39 per month for unlimited > calls but that does not seem to be the best deal. Vonage has a $25 per > month plan for unlimited calls that we are considering. But the box they > show has 2 phone jacks on it. I can't figure out if I can just run a > phone > cord from one of those jacks into a phone plug in my wall to make all of > my > current phones work or would I be limited to plugging 2 phones into the 2 > jacks on the box I would get from vonage. Since I have a wife and 3 kids > and 8 phones in the house that does not sound very appealing. > > I would ultimately like to get a card to put into a computer and have a > linux box running asterisk that can do all the cool stuff that would > enable > but my wife is tired of waiting for me to figure out all the stuff that > would require and I don't have any time for that right now. I plan to do > that at some point but I am thinking about doing vonage or something just > to > try it out for now. > > So does anybody have any suggestions on what company to use or warnings > about what to avoid? Does anybody have their digital phone plugged into > the > house phone wiring to make all the regular phones in your house work? > > Thanks > Barry Gaskins > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Carl Crider -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
