[dba-Tech] VOIP / Vonage

Tina,

The client I was talking about to John Bartow most certainly has
wireless broadband:  a laptop with a wireless "G" card in it, a
Linksys wireless router, and a Linksys broadband router with the two
phone ports for the VOIP phones.  One of those ports is for his fax
machine; another goes to a 5-way RJ-11 jack.  He has two cordless
telephones plugged into that 5-way jack.  His DSL modem is plugged
into the broadband router with the two phone ports.  The wireless
router is plugged into the broadband router.  Works champion.

Steve Erbach

On 2/4/06, Tina Norris Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
> John,
> As I read the Vonage ads, I gather that a wireless connection will not
> work.  Is that correct?  I would like to try Vonage, but my high-speed
> broadband connection is wireless.
> Tina
>
> John Colby wrote:
>
> >It saves me a TON of money for regular phone, which I give some back to them
> >in the fax and 800 number.  It is $25+ for unlimited local/long distance
> >anywhere in the US and Canada.  Also very low rates to places like Mexico
> >and Ireland.  $25 for unlimited phone is dirt cheap.  Of course you have to
> >have high speed internet, but since I have to have that anyway for my
> >business, I don't count that as a "phone" expense.  I talk to my clients for
> >1 hour regularly, 3 hours often.  At 10c / minute that is $6 / hour.  So it
> >only takes a few hours to pay for the $25.  Plus we call family all over the
> >country and talk as long as we wish.
> >
> >It is better quality than Cellular.
> >
> >As a result of having Vonage, I have no real use for the "unlimited middle
> >of the night and weekend (what were those hours again)" cell phone crapola,
> >and so I switched my Cellular to Virgin Mobile, where I am now paying less
> >than $5 per month for cell phone - I don't use cell a lot, just a "pay phone