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Vonage phone service

Posted By: Rred on 2006-01-31
In Reply to: Is anyone using the new internet phone service through - jus me

I have been using Vonage for about 4 months now, and I really love it.  My bill has never been over 23.00 and the only drawbacks I have seen is that sometimes my voice will have an echo-like quality that is a little distracting and the other is if my internet service is out for some reason, I don't have a phone, but it is very rare for that to ever happen.  The low bill more than makes up for it.  My phone company bill used to be at least 75.00, and I never could figure out what half of the charges stood for.  Even the people who worked at the office couldn't explain it!


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I am wondering if there is a way to use your C-phone with Vonage phone service?
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Has anybody tried Vonage for phone service?
Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks
Can you get Vonage w/out getting internet service? sm

If I can remember correctly, I was once told that you needed their internet service - which I do not need nor want - just want to get rid of my expensive land line.


 


Thanks!


Anyone use/try C-phone with Medicom's phone service?
Wondering if it works?
Anyone know if you can use Vonage with a C-phone? nm
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Vonage with C-phone - sm
I use VOIP digital phone from Time Warner cable with my Lanier and have had no problems - unless the cable goes out, which (knock on wood) doesn't happen often. Hope this helps.
You can use Vonage with C-phone
I have used it for over 2 years now with both C-phone and Lanier. It does work better with the C-phones. Good luck.
Can I use my C-Phone with Vonage? SM

I live in small town America.  We have one telephone company that serves our rural county which is CenturyTel and it sucks.  If we moved 7 miles up the road, we would be able to get SBC or AT&T.  I have my phone line and DSL internet through CenturyTel and have nothing but trouble.  I am supposed to have unlimited long distance which I have had since May of last year.  Last month I received a $3000 phone bill because for whatever reason, they disconnected my unlimited long distance.  When I called them to pitch a fit, they apologized, said they were rectifying the matter, and told me I only owed the usual $100 which I promptly paid.  I got a disconnect notice today saying they are going to disconnect me if the $3000 I owe isn't paid by March 1st.  I am now on hold with the 5th person I have had to talk to at this incompetent, rinky dink phone company and I am pulling my hair out.  This isn't the first time I've had problems with them.  They've switched my service packages before for no apparent reason and the only explanation I get is "Hmmmm, I apologize for that, I'm not sure why somebody would do that."  Or my personal favorite, blame the phantom employee "she just didn't put in the computer right, but I'm fixing it for you now."


Anyway, sorry about the rant, but I'm truly losing it!  I have decided to call the cable company and get internet through them and try to work with Vonage, but I need to actually plug my C-phone into a jack and I understand that Vonage is all wireless through a router.  I need to know is there a way to plug a phone cord into a Vonage modem?


I am just so frustrated! 


Vonage & C-phone

I'm passing this tidbit along.

If you have Vonage and are having trouble connecting to the dictation system, here's the solution. Purchase one of those little two-line plastic gizmos from Radio Shack. I don't know what it's called, but you can plug it into a wall jack and then plug two phones into it. It was used in "the old days" before Cable and DSL lines, and your computer modem and telephone shared the same line.

Pop this gizmo into the back of your Vonage router. Plug a regular phone into one socket and your C-phone into the other.

Dial into the transcription station with the regular phone. Punch in all of the codes and once you're fully connected, pick up the headset for the C-phone, put on your headset, hang up the regular phone, and you're set to work!!! 


Vonage and c-phone
Hello, Anyone has vonage and a c-phone attached and working?  If so, how is your quality.  I currently have Bellsouth/AT&T with their DSL for cable, whenever I use my c-phone my internet acts flaky.  DH wants to switch to Comcast cable for internet and vonage..will save us money that for sure.  Any comments?
I have used vonage with c-phone and currently Lanier sm
voicewrite EX and have no problems. I just have the personal plan. I didn't see any reason to get the business plan. You have unlimited long distance on both but they charge you more for a business. I have used vonage over a year. I love the $27.00 a month. It is good to have a regular phone line also because when internet is done vonage is down also.
Is there a way to use my C-phone with my Vonage setup? SM

I need to plug my C-phone into a phone jack.  My Vonage setup is completely wireless set up by my local cable company.


I've got an analog telephone line, but the local phone company in this area is incredibly incompetent and I am at the end of my rope and am desparate to figure something else out.  I have called this company of Keystone Cops four times trying to order their unlimited long distance plan.  Each time they have apologized for the inconvience and said "somebody dropped the ball" and they are just so sorry.  This morning I called them for the 5th time because I got a letter in the mail yesterday thanking me for signing up for the 5 cents a minute long distance plan!  Now I'm told that they are making "notations" on my account and when I get my bill at the end of the month I will need to call their "investigations department" to get the long distance charges reversed.


So as you can see, my frustration meter is maxing out with these people!  Help me figure out a way I can use my Vonage with my C-phone and tell these people to hang themselves with their telephone line!


Help! Vonage, Satellite, C-phone

Does anyone out there successfully use a C-phone with Vonage with satellite internet?  I have Hughes.net satellite (can't get DSL in my area).  My C-phone foot pedal has a lag in using all the controls of FF, RW, and Play.  I have upgraded my Hughes.net service, increased the bandwith, and am still having the same problem.  If you also had this problem, what did you do to correct it?  TIA


 


 


I have been using my C-phone with vonage for about 4-5 years
Actually since I first heard about vonage.

It works great and I have the unlimited small business plan about $50 a month without all the hassle of a regular phone service.

I also got my phone number as a local phone number for my family so when I am not working they can call and it doesnt cost them any long distance which is a win win situation in my book.
Does anyone experience a lag when using Vonage with C-Phone?

I have a DAC digital transcribe unit and I dial into a DVI system.  I have noticed there is a lag.  When I let off my pedal, the dictation continues to play for a second and then stops.  The auto backspace is skewed because the dictation plays forward too much when I left off my pedal.


Anyone else experience this and is there anything Vonage can do to correct it?


I've never used Verizon, but I tried using Vonage with my C-phone and ... SM

I didn't find Vonage to be very reliable.  Some days I would have no dial tone and the phone wouldn't be working and I would have to reboot my high speed modem, reboot my router, and then reboot my Vonage modem.  This happened a lot after thunderstorms and ice or snow storms.  Some days I'd be working and lose my connection.  I had trouble with dialing out even though I could receive calls and had to wait for Vonage to fix a server problem.


It just got really annoying for me.  I mean the unlimited long distance was great, but I need something more reliable.  My local phone company ended up offering an unlimited long distance package at a reasonable price and I jumped at it.  Now I've got a regular 'ol analog phone line with unlimited LD and I pay about $40 month and that's with an in-line service package which means if I have any jack or line problems, I don't have to pay extra for a technician to come out and fix it for me.


 


Does anyone use Vonage with a C-phone. Any info please. Att wants to change me 10 c/minute. nm
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I use Vonage with a C phone and Lanier with no problems, love it.
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I have had no problems with Vonage at all, I haved using Lanier and a C phone.
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Is anyone using the new internet phone service through
your local cable company or Vonage or something like that.  How do you like it?  Any troubles we should be aware of?  Thanks for any info.
RE: Is anyone using the new internet phone service through
I have internet services and digital phone service through Time-Warner, and it is great!
OT: Amp'd Cell Phone Service
I am looking for a new cell phone service, preferably pay-as-you-go or something really cheap because I barely even use 100 minutes a month most months. Has anyone tried this new Amp'd broadband cell service? What'd ya think?

Thanks!

Shelby
you can get a net service through cell phone. sm
i have altel and their plan in the south is $25/mo for unlimited use. it picks up anywhere you would get a cell signal. software was around $99 i think. it isn't as fast as DSL or cable, but would work if desperate. you plug your phone into your laptop via the software/cable and it uses your phone as the modem to dial in and connect. downfall is you can't receive phone calls while using it, calls go to voicemail. do you have to continually download voice files so that you couldn't download before you left? not sure a VPN connection would work with cell if you used that for national.
Phone Service help needed

Just got my new phone bill and freaked out. I'm supposed to be on a $39.95 monthly plan including unlimited long distance. My bill was $74!!!! The LD charges were $45!!! The phone company said I could get local LD and I could save a whopping $5 a month (how nice).


I'm looking for a new provider and used to go to a site where you could compare phone services but can't seem to find it now. Does anyone have that site?


I've thought about Vonage..does anyone have their service and how is it? Would it clash with my KVM switch and router?


Thanks for any help. As my name implies, in the past few years, technology has me going nuts lately and I seem to have "lost it."


I have digital phone service through my
cable internet provider.  I no longer have a C-phone account, but used it for a few months without any problems.  It is truly unlimited.  I tried VoIP through my ISP provider and couldn't get it to work and support is in India and less than helpful.  I have read where many people use Vonage and are happy with it. 
I have not heard of Comcast phone service
It sounds like a good idea. If service goes down, it is never for long. And most people also have a cell phone for back up.

How much are we talking about? Hmmm?
Does anyone use Mediacom's digital phone service? sm
It is available to me but I do not want to switch until I know more about it.  I know some of you use Comcast, so if any of you have any advice for me on the digital services, it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
Internet service without land-line phone

I recently looked into this subject myself.  If you have Verizon available in your area, you can purchase a plan at about $55.00 per month with a two-year contract.  You will receive a card that you can insert into your laptop, which will provide you with unlimited Internet access at the speed of DSL.  As far as I know, there are no other cell service providers that have come up with this type of card yet, but I'm sure it's bound to happen in the future.  Another option is to purchase a satellite telephone and phone cards as you go along, but the cards are really outrageous in price.  One last thing that I would suggest is that you phone cell providers in your area to see if they have any technical gadgets you could attach to the cell phone for Internet access.  Many of the satellite phone companies have separate packages you can buy, which can be attached to laptops or PDAs.  I also have a TracPhone, so I know it does not come with hardware that will do the trick.


 


Good luck to you in setting everything up.  With the way that technology is moving, I'm sure there must be a way to accomplish what you want. 


If you use LecStar as your home/business phone service read this....sm

They had a judge sign a Chapter 7 bankruptcy order on 10/2 and have begun cutting off phone service to residental and business customers.  I found out about this when I attempted to make a long distance call today (I had the unlimited long distance home phone plan) and got notification that I had no long distance service available.  Upon calling them the representative told me that they're working on cutting phone service to everyone and at any time I could lose service.  I've called the "mega" phone service for my area, BellSouth, and signed up to switch hopefully before the line is disconnected by LecStar.


Interestingly I had signed up for their service through a cooperation they had with my power company.  The power company just found out yesterday about the bankruptcy and services starting to be cut off and is in the process now of calling every power company customer who had phone service with LecStar and telling them what is happening so that hopefully no one else will be caught off guard with a disconnected phone service. 


 


Our cable company doesn't offer phone service yet, and anyway,
I don't know if I'd want everything dependent on their service for all my needs. Even my internet is not as dependable as it should be, yet there is nothing wrong according to them. I already pay for internet and TV to the tune of $147 a month and they are raising it in Jan. again.
What is the longest you have gone without service? Do they return phone calls promptly?
TIA
I think they are actually dictating to a transcription service (Baker Sten-Stel) via C-phone
then they e-mail back to the doctor's office for me to type. So maybe it will go back to them for QA. Why I don't know. This work cameto me from a temp service and they obviously did not know much. I will find out Monday morning. Thanks for your input. I will more than likely be on this site screaming for help. The AOL question was just in case I can get them to use my home office next time, because I just switched to DSL through AOL and I was hoping that would would work with Express Scribe, my footpedal and their software.
I pay $35/month through Vonage for unlimited LD. Local phone co. charges $50/month. NM
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We have decided to add this to our current service not have a new service. It will be easier to sm

keep track of and will just be a different department. 


It looks like we will work out details over the next 6 months, talking with community college program directors as well as a few of the distance-learning course leaders to work on the recruiting end.


We will train current staff to mentor if they would like to do so and want to work in the office.


We are still working on production requirements, goals to set, pay, benefits and other fine details but we have 6 months to get it all in place with three months to pull it together after that with a tentative start date of 09/01/06.  We need to build the building as well, although that is already at the blueprint stage in a spot next to our current office. 


We did not want to cause flames and bashing by listing the company name as there are always so many negative people on this site, but we are national with over 200 transcriptionists, located outside of Chicago (40 miles west) and have the best team of transcriptionists around!


We will have an "official" announcement after the first of the new year. 


Thank you for all of your feedback and suggestions!


My telephone service is VOIP, but it s through my cable service, along with my cable internet. .
We have had VOIP for about a year now and I love it. I really can't tell a difference in traditional service, except the price. One of the best calls of my life was to Bellsouth to cancel our service!
C-phone used to call in to dictating systems to receive work. A special phone. nm
nm
I had a lot of trouble with static in my C-phone. I replaced the phone cord and that made a big

difference.  Also, have you tried a different headset?  Also someone told me one time that there is a microphone under your volume control on the right corner of the C-phone.  It's a tiny hole.  If you break off a Q-tip and stick that into the hole that will squelch a lot of background noise and that worked as well.  As far as getting your C-phone service, I heard that Dictaphone is "sunsetting" C-phones at the end of this year.  Meaning, they aren't going to service them anymore as they are considered an obsolete technology.  So, I would contact Dictaphone and see what your options are.


I know very little about Lanier equipment.  I've not used it as extensively as Dictaphone.  Is there a local appliance repair place in your area?  You might ask one of those places to take a look at your equipment and see what they think.  Kinda scary, cause they could do more harm than good, but maybe worth a shot.


Not much help, I know.  But I thought I would share what tiny bit of obscure knowledge I do have. 


I've changed them between an old phone and new phone, but the same company, i.e. Nextel.
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I use my c-phone whenever we travel. You can hook it directly into your room phone. Be sure and as
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I am not asking for a service, I AM the service looking for recorders
nm
I think you can dial into most systems that require C-phone without having a C-phone nm
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May have to change phone companies, have switched to job using a C-phone. sm
Currently have Embarq (formerly Sprint), and my usage will be going up about 12,000 minutes a month.  What phone companies offer really unlimited for a flat rate?  TIA.
C-phone and ATT. There is no problem with the C-phone, but ATT wouldn't let me use unlimited.
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I have cable phone access and my C-phone works - sm
I am not sure about you problem, because it sounds just like I have mine hooked up.  The only thing I can think of is that mine has 2 line hookups in the back of the phone.  If you have this too, I would just try the other one, which you probably have already done.  Sorry that was not much help.  I wish you luck
I have a very loud hum when using my C-phone, but no hum when I'm using the regular phone. SM

Anyone else experience this problem with their C-phone?  Is there a problem with my C-phone?  At first I thought it was my telelphone line and called the phone company.  They sent a technician out to replace the lines and check the house, but the hum is still there on the C-phone.


It's driving me batty!


C-phone info regarding phone lines etc.
I am completely clueless on the subject of a C-phone.  Can someone help me understand exactly how this works?  Do you have to specifically have a separate "dial up internet" service to use the C-phone? I currently have cable internet and am wondering if there is anything else I need to get.  I guess I should contact my phone company.  At any rate, any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!
If you use a C-phone for work and have a digital phone

through cable, have you tried to take an incoming call?


We only have one phone line.  I rarely get/make calls and when I do we have cell phones.  I just started working with a C-phone and got digital phone.  I can go a month and my phone not ring, so far have gotten 3 calls today, but I'm afraid that if I try to answer the phone that I will lose my report. 


I guess I could pull up a report and have my husband call on his C-phone and test it that way and then if I lose it no biggie. 


 


 


Vonage
Any of you out there using Vonage?  It seems like a really good deal, 25.00 a month for unlimited (opposed to the 110. we pay for Verizon).  Anyone using it to connect to hospitals? and do they say anything if you are using 8 hours solid for work?  I see they have a small business plan for around 50.  If any of you have it, how is the connection and the sound quality.
I have been using Vonage for almost
a year now. I didn't get the business plan and I didn't tell them what I was using it for, and they have never said anything about it. I do dial into a hospital and have used it on a personal basis. The sound quality is good. I have been disconnected a few tiimes in bad weather but not for very long and only maybe twice since having it. Go for it, I think you'd like it. Good luck!
Vonage
I would like to get Vonage but I have two extension phones in my house and they told me it would only ring on one phone and not on the extensions. Any suggestions?
It is not against the law for Vonage as they are
However, for the other LD companies i.e., Sprint, Verizon, etc., it is not allowed. I also used my local carrier only to be notified several times that I could not use it for this type of work and if I continued they would disconnect my service! I know use Vonage and have had no problems.