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revbuddylove · 06-23-2003, 10:48 AM

I have been using vonage for about 2 months at home and here are my thoughts:

I think think that the quality of the service realies heavily on the quality of the network setup at your broadband provider, if your packets take a million hops bouncing around inside their network before they are sent out, your service quality will probably suck. I guess that latency is the big vaiable in the system, if latency is high, you probably won't be happy.
I get my broadband via a wireless system, there is a tower a few miles from my house, and I have an antenna on my roof. When I signed up for vonage I was getting about 512 down and 384 up broadband speeds. I wasn't really happy with vonage at all, it was a lot like talking on a cell phone, that sort of echo-y static-y shit that you get from yoru cell when you are in a fringe area. So I talked with vonage and I talked with my broadband provider and tried to work it out. During the process of trying to figure out the problem my broadband provider gave me a deal on a 1mbit per sec connection. Then my vonage problems went away. I was inclined to belive that throwing bandwidth at the problem is what fixed it, but I think that they may have also changed the route that my packets take through their network as well. But now I am very happy with the quality of the calls. The system still isn't perfect, I have some voice mail problems, and occasionally need to power cycle the ATA. But there are a lot of really cool features as well that I think make up for it.

My advice is this; if you are looking for a perfect, cheap, never have a problem replacement for your telco phone, you might want to wait just a little while longer.

If you are a gadget freak and get off on using cool new toys and don't mind that you have to take the time to get the system tuned properly you will probably like vonage a lot, I do.

There ya go, my 2 cents.

06-23-2003, 10:48 AM
revbuddylove Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: In the hizouse... Posts: 402	I have been using vonage for about 2 months at home and here are my thoughts: I think think that the quality of the service realies heavily on the quality of the network setup at your broadband provider, if your packets take a million hops bouncing around inside their network before they are sent out, your service quality will probably suck. I guess that latency is the big vaiable in the system, if latency is high, you probably won't be happy. I get my broadband via a wireless system, there is a tower a few miles from my house, and I have an antenna on my roof. When I signed up for vonage I was getting about 512 down and 384 up broadband speeds. I wasn't really happy with vonage at all, it was a lot like talking on a cell phone, that sort of echo-y static-y shit that you get from yoru cell when you are in a fringe area. So I talked with vonage and I talked with my broadband provider and tried to work it out. During the process of trying to figure out the problem my broadband provider gave me a deal on a 1mbit per sec connection. Then my vonage problems went away. I was inclined to belive that throwing bandwidth at the problem is what fixed it, but I think that they may have also changed the route that my packets take through their network as well. But now I am very happy with the quality of the calls. The system still isn't perfect, I have some voice mail problems, and occasionally need to power cycle the ATA. But there are a lot of really cool features as well that I think make up for it. My advice is this; if you are looking for a perfect, cheap, never have a problem replacement for your telco phone, you might want to wait just a little while longer. If you are a gadget freak and get off on using cool new toys and don't mind that you have to take the time to get the system tuned properly you will probably like vonage a lot, I do. There ya go, my 2 cents. __________________ -Rev. Buddy Love Code Monkey at Adult.com Last edited by revbuddylove; 06-23-2003 at 10:50 AM..