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Originally Posted by syee
I've used Vonage before and it was mediocre at best. There were claims that Shaw was intentionally messing with Vonage (to promote their Shaw phone service) which didn't help. I ended up canceling it after my year commitment was up because of the quality issues and stuck with a land line. I probably wouldn't use them again for business purposes although I could see it's appeal for home use.
The MagicJack sounds pretty cool. J - how have your experiences been with it? Have you used it at places like hotels where the Internet access is sometimes somewhat marginal? (i.e. slow where you get <100kb/s)
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yes it's worked great. I've called vancouver from 10% slow wireless signal at a bed and breakfast in northern scotland and it was still usuable. Normal conditions have no issue. If you're going to have problems with this, then you'll have problems with VOIP for sure, except this is just a plug to carry where voip you have to carry either a bigger box or a phone. If you're wondering about this as home phone replacement then i'd get one to test out before making a final decision. I got it in while i was in the states so i have a US number, cant remember if they offered canadian numbers. All i know is i live in a condo in richmond and for some reason no matter what i do or a tech does, every voip out there has pretty poor call quality unless i completely butcher my normal net speed to allocate majority of the bandwidth to the phone. With this thing i have had no issues whatsoever. For $40, you dont loose much to try it out. I think they even have free trial atm from their site.