Vonage

Well, you don't need your computer to use vonage. If you have a internet connected DHCP pool, you can just plug it in, plug a regular telephone into (RJ-11) into it and wait a few seconds and your ready to go. If you get the soft-phone, you don't have to take the box with you. It doesn't have wi-fi connection option. Remember, the "adapter" is really a linksys box with a...

I'll be able to carry the adapter home and to work, plug it in to any available broadband network, computer and regular phone, and when someone calls my Vonage number it will ring where I'm at? ...

It is the size of a Linksys Internet Home Router. In fact, that is what it is. ;) You can just plug it in anywhere and it works fine. It doesn't even need to be your broadband router, you can just set it up like another box on your network. For more money, you can get a soft-phone, which installs on your Mac or Windows computer allowing you to place calls with your computer...

switch. To make things more confusing I also just got a motorola vonage phone box. ...

I've got Vonage and I love it. Even my Tivo can dial out over it. So the quality is very good. ...

I have heard very good things about vonage. I havent used it, but some of my good friends have, and they sound clearer when i talk to them than when they use a normal line. I guess it all depends on how stable your broadband is. I know mine goes out from time to time, and that would mean no phone service for me.

Turns out when I lost phone service, what really happened was I lost my cable internet. It happened when I was gone for a few hours, only my kids didn't tell me this. They rebooted the computer but not the Cisco ATA telephone adapter (which they know nothing about). Today, I finally got someone at Vonage (the VoIP provider) who understood using a switch as opposed to a router....

I'm using a VoIP phone service over my cable internet connection. I keep loosing the phone serivice though whenever the internet goes down (I use Comcast). I've got an IP address for both but still no dial tone on my phone. The phone company (Vonage) says I need to use a router not a D-Link switch to get the service to work properly. True or false? If true, router...

I'm presently using a D-Link DSS-5+ switch so I can get VoIP phone service over my cable internet connection. I'm using a Motorola SB4200 cable modem, a Cisco ATA 186 Analog telephone adapter, running OSX 10.2.8 on my G4 Powermac. The cable service (from Comcast) comes in to the modem, then goes to the D-Link switch, then to both the computer and the Cisco device. I keep...