[AccessD] Vonage

I received the phonemodem last night.  Plugged it in (behind my router for
those interested), waited 5 minutes, then picked up the receiver and made a
call.  Extremely easy to set up.  

The sound so far is crystal clear, no clicks / pops or echoes.  I have a
brand new ATT 2ghz cordless phone system which I plugged in to it.  I can't
tell the difference between this and the landline.  

I haven't done any heavy duty uploads / downloads though I will be doing
some testing in the next few days.  

I went with the $15 / month package for 500 total minutes - local and long
distance, with anything after that billed at $.039 / minute.  If my useage
averages more than 500 minutes I'll move up to the $25 package with
unlimited local and 500 long distance minutes.  Given my useage patterns I
may very well end up with a $15 / month phone including long distance.

So far so good.

John W. Colby
The database guy


-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:19 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Vonage


My blazing fast internet recently went up 50% to $45 / month.  The cable
company wants $35 / month for unlimited phone / long distance so I could
just get it through them, but I thought I'd give Vonage a try.  Vonage has
$15, $25 and $35 packages which allows me to try it for cheap and see if it
really works before turning off the land line.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:27 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Vonage


Price sounds good, but if you are using DSL it's not really like you're
saving much.. :(

Verizon = 29.00
DSL     = 35.00
---------------
          64.00

plus the vonage price? :S, I can't get rid of verizon as they are my
telco. the only thing that would make sense is to switch to cable then
it's just the price of the cable bill plus vonage.


--
-Francisco


augusta wrote:

>I signed up a few weeks ago. It may or may not have wrecked just a bit
>of havoc on my (fairly complicated) network. But overall I love it!  The
>only bummer is that you always have to dial the 1+area code . . . (But I
>hear some in NJ are doing that already). Great price!
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-
>>bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
>>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:53 PM
>>To: AccessD
>>Subject: [AccessD] Vonage
>>
>>Is anyone using this?  Comments?
>>
>>http://www.vonage.com
>>
>>John W. Colby
>>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>

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