VoIP

[andyzee]

My friend has it from his cable company. Usually works good, however he did keep his land line and it's a good thing cause there's a number of times he had outages.

I build these things for a living.

What town? *cringe*

Forget the town, but it's Morris county NJ

That's Cablevision & Siemens VoIP equipment. Not my problem.

that would be correct.

[BrockVond]

Anyone else switch to IP based telephony? Worth it? From a cost perspective it's a no brainer.

I use Vonage, but I still have verizon land line.

I live 1 block from former WTC and in times of emergency the only things that worked here on 9/11 were old style non electric phones and , ironically , RIM pagers.

live and learn, literally.

Vonage is only as good as your local residential broadband connection. Most residential data networks see lots of congestion in the late-afternoon through early evening and on rainy weekends when everyone is internet surfing. If you happen to get internet service from a provider that doesn't have congestion issues at the busy hour, a service like Vonage will work well enough most of the time. At my house, it would be useless.

Agreed. That's why I say, " I want my triple play!"

hehe