Good evening one and all...happy new year! Wanted to say hello to my friends, both new and old and say thank you for the conversations and assistances over the year..I am a lucky guy
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My roommate and I use two different VOIP services over our cable Internet connection; he uses Vonage, I use Broadvice. They're both excellent, no complaints about either one. Setup was trivially simple and call quality is as good as a landline. I chose Broadvoice because I wanted a minimal account pretty much for incoming calls only, and they had a very cheap basic plan.
Both of them use a dedicated VOIP adapter... basically a little box with Ethernet on one side and a simple phone jack on the other. Plug in a standard phone (or a multi-handset wireless base station) and you're in business. The adapters are usually extremely cheap or free when you sign up for an account, or you can buy a combined Internet router / VOIP adapter from Linksys and others at places like Best Buy. There are other alternatives, including a software phone for your PC and a dedicated handheld VOIP phone.
Bear in mind that 911 doesn't work the same way with VOIP, so it may not be a 100% replacement for a standard landline. You can register your 911 location with Vonage when you set up your service, which goes a long way towards fixing the situation.
If you're using Bittorrent you'll need to limit its bandwidth usage in both directions to leave a little bit for your phone service, but they don't need much... maybe 100-200 kilobits/second inbound and outbound.
Both of them use a dedicated VOIP adapter... basically a little box with Ethernet on one side and a simple phone jack on the other. Plug in a standard phone (or a multi-handset wireless base station) and you're in business. The adapters are usually extremely cheap or free when you sign up for an account, or you can buy a combined Internet router / VOIP adapter from Linksys and others at places like Best Buy. There are other alternatives, including a software phone for your PC and a dedicated handheld VOIP phone.
Bear in mind that 911 doesn't work the same way with VOIP, so it may not be a 100% replacement for a standard landline. You can register your 911 location with Vonage when you set up your service, which goes a long way towards fixing the situation.
If you're using Bittorrent you'll need to limit its bandwidth usage in both directions to leave a little bit for your phone service, but they don't need much... maybe 100-200 kilobits/second inbound and outbound.
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