[ale] Vonage alternatives...

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Feb 11 14:41:36 EST 2005


Why does the vonage box need to be outside instead of inside?  I have
packet8 and it is inside.  We've used the Linksys vonage box on the
inside as well.

I will add that my firewall is Linux and when we used the Linksys the
firewall was a Linksys 802.11G router. 


On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:55, Ben Scherrey wrote:
> I've used it and its not bad but I need dial-in service as well. Skype 
> doesn't yet offer that. Vonage is back up. Finally found out that they 
> had some issue with outbound calls. Never got a description of why. 
> Otherwise I've been pleased with their service and its been pretty 
> reliable. Only trouble is I have NEVER talked to a human and their 
> support just sucks when you need to contact someone. I was wanting to 
> expand my service with them to three or four lines but no one returned 
> my email! That just can't last long... so I'm still looking.
> 
>     -- Ben Scherrey
> 
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> >I tried them for a week and gave up on it.  Skype works good, but I
> >haven't tried their SkypOut POTS service yet.  I've "heard" that it is
> >better than Vonage, but that may or may not be valid.
> >
> >-Jim P.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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