I have to admit, I set up a Vonage account a few weeks ago, not because I really needed it but because I really wanted to see how the consumer market had progressed in this area. The install was a piece of cake. I bought a Linksys RT31P2 router at Staples for $49.00 with the rebate. Set-up was over the vonage website and basically 5-10 minutes later the phone port gets activated and your good to go.
My weak link intially was the phone I used. Forgot that I needed an extra phone and all I had was an old 900 Mhz analog phone. Once I replaced it, the quality was good. Best of all it passed the wife test with ease. Right now it's a second phone, actually I got a phone number in my parents home town so they no longer need to dial long distance. Additional or virtual numbers are $4.99 a month. Now AT&T and the other cable and dsl companies are getting in the act. i think this will take off in the next 2-3 years.
My two cents. RR
VoIP is the killer consumer broadband app, Cisco CTO says. The future of converged services and the design of the Internet itself will be driven more by consumer demands than by the plans of carriers, technologists and equipment vendors, says Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco’s chief technology officer. [Network World Fusion NetFlash]
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