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smarm · 11-12-2006, 03:24 PM

I've had Vonage for probably about a year now... no local service anymore. I have a cable modem, instead of DSL, so I was able to get rid of local service completely.

After I had the service for a while it started dropping out and having voice distortions during conversations. It was pretty frustrating to figure out, but it eventually turned out to be a Cable problem. Time Warner eventually came out and replaced the "splitter" outside and it is great now.

I bought a UPS that I only plug my Cable Modem and the Vonage black box doohickey into so power outages don't affect the service (until the battery runs out in the UPS).

Overall I think it is great, and saves me $75 or more a month over what I was paying with local service and long distance from AT&T.

11-12-2006, 03:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
smarm Insane	I've had Vonage for probably about a year now... no local service anymore. I have a cable modem, instead of DSL, so I was able to get rid of local service completely. After I had the service for a while it started dropping out and having voice distortions during conversations. It was pretty frustrating to figure out, but it eventually turned out to be a Cable problem. Time Warner eventually came out and replaced the "splitter" outside and it is great now. I bought a UPS that I only plug my Cable Modem and the Vonage black box doohickey into so power outages don't affect the service (until the battery runs out in the UPS). Overall I think it is great, and saves me $75 or more a month over what I was paying with local service and long distance from AT&T.