Allright gurus. I currently have a Verizon landline at home. I hate the cost of this land line that we never use. I looked into a VOIP phone. Verizon offered me their brand called Verizon Voicewing. So two weeks ago I agreed to try it to cut my phone bill by more than half. Well after fighting with their idiot customer service reps for more than a week, I decided to drop them. Now I'm stuck with the land line still and I'm not sure who I should go to for VOIP. I want the cheapest possible VOIP, since this is merely a backup and to field calls on our answering machine. We use cell phones like most people. Any suggestions with good info to back it up? FYI I'm even more fired up about hating Verizon after this.

 

anybody?

 

I wouldn't want VOIP on consumer internet as my backup. Cant you get a limited outbound calling plan on your land line?

 

Well I would just assume not have a home line, but I feel it's necessary to field calls. Price is my motivating factor. Why not if it's gonna save me money and not be relied on for primary phone service?

 

Go Vonage. $24.99 for unlimited usage...

 

I guess Vonage as mentioned above is as good as any but the quality if spotty at best.

 

I am in the military and when i was in japan and iraq i used yahoo messenger voice. Its pay as you go and cost a penny a minute and it comes with an answering machine.

As long as you have a good connection it works flawlessly. If you offline it rings to your voicemail, and if your on line your computer rings just like a phone. I had experimented with a couple of providers and found this to work the best, for me atleast.

 

I have looked in to it pretty throughly, and everything I found said the same thing as vader. Everyone says that cell phones are more reliable.

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I was actually looking into it for myself personally and was also going a step further with research and looking into creating a WIFI VoIP phone service for a neighborhood in town as part of an experiment.

 

I imagine it didn't work out huh? Was it quality, security, or cost?

 

Go back to a LAN line and throw that VoIP Bullchit out the window.....


VoIP sux the stains from my undies...imo


Actual incoming call:

Caller: You sometimes ... Some ... ... ... that ... are spoken ... ... one side or the ... ... ... Dead air from the ... ... ... be ... ... in the ... ... ... pizzes me off ... ... ...end.

Me: WTF did you just say?

 

Well they are more secure than a cordless
It would be pennies a month per user, depending on how many users. The more the cheaper.


^^^^^^

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I got ahold of one to play with for a little bit, literally setting arms distance from the router and got that.... I couldn;t figue out a way to fix it I really dont think it was the wifi at all. I think it was signla loss as the voice going through the modlulation changes.