[TriLUG] need a home phone

[Carl Crider]

I get a discount to use Vonage. These others are great, and if and
when I need to change, I know I have more options.
This will be used for work-from-home-office calls only, domestic and
international, etc. The gear I need has to be
reliable and sound great too. It's been so long since I bought a phone
for the house (2001?), I had no idea what to look
for. Thanks for all of the suggestions thus far.






On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Steve Pinkham <steve.pinkham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Voipo is the service I use, they provide you with a FXS box(voip-analog,
> they sent me a RT31P2) though you can BYO if you want.  Unlimited
> calling including all taxes and fees is $10.50 with 2 year
> commitment($252 total), $11.25 per month with 1 year, and $18 month to
> month.
>
> They have good features and service. I've been happy so far.
>
> Affiliated with hostgator, who has good shared webhosting service, so
> I'm not too worried about them disappearing anytime soon.
>
> voipo.com
>
> On 07/30/2010 11:21 AM, Bill Farrow wrote:
>> Carl,
>> Not sure what Vonage requires.
>>
>> I use a Linksys PAP2 [1] (VOIP ATA) with a couple of Panasonic
>> cordless phones plugged into it.  I have also recently helped several
>> friends purchase and setup some PAP2T devices for their home phone.
>> We got these for $35 from ebay [2], the only catch was to make sure
>> the unit was not locked to Vonage.  This might not be a problem for
>> you :-)
>>
>> I'm using the VOIP service from callcentric.com which has been great.
>> My fixed monthly cost is $3.45, and with the per minute call costs our
>> phone comes to about $10 a month.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_PAP2
>> [2] http://www.google.com/products?q=linksys+PAP2T
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm in need of phone suggestions. We use Vonage, and need
>>> a decent piece of hardware and reliable wireless headset to match.
>>> It seems I never shop/buy without asking here first. :)
>>>
>>> My budget for "decent piece of hardware" = $100-250 for a complete package
>>>
>>> Thanks all
>>>
>>> - Carl
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