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I just switched to Vonage.
It's a mixed bag but seems to be getting better as I straighten out my problems. For me it was not as straight forward as I had hoped. The sound quality at times is very good and at other times it is very poor. Seems like if my kid is playing a game on the internet and streaming video, the band width is sufficient but some dastardly firewall is slowing the packets down and causing sound problems. The firewall is built into the router and the router is not programmable because it's pretty old -- Verizon DSL estimates its 8 years old. That's the biggest issue but will be fixed in "2 to 3 business days" when the new router gets here. The second sound issue came and went and I finally tracked it down to Carbonite. So I had to throw Carbonite into Low Priority mode. That seems to fix it. So it's up and working. I guess my biggest issues are that I have the older router because I've had DSL for so long. If it wasn't for those two issues, it would have been a much easier install. Anyway, I thought I would throw it out there in case anyone else is considering switching. In the long term, I think it'll be good. In the short term, it could be an easy install but it was a on the tough side for me. Good luck if you're trying it. |