Vonage phone service ...?

Question

Is there any type of hardware that needs to be purchased through them in order to acquire their service?

Answer 1

yes, i have vonage, they give you a router for free that you hook your old telephone to. get it it's worth it, the only problem i have is you can't be downloading or playing an online game that eats up all your bandwith while your on the phone it will not work right. other than that it works great, free long distance, flat fee of 27 buck a month. better than 80 buck for local.

Answer 2

You can do this either way. Either you acquire a vonage router or buy one through them. My advice is shop around and buy it yourself. Vonage sometimes will have a rebate that is much higher than the price of the router plus some store will offer additional things if you buy it through them. For instance I got a 25 dollar gift card from Best Buy and a hundred dollar rebate on a 90 dollar router. Unfortunately it looks like they backed off on the rebates a little since then. So shop around and choose what is best for you.



Also if you would get a more expensive router with the Quality of Service (QoS) feature the problem with downloading at the same time would go away. Quality of Service would guarentee that vonage would get whatever it wants when it wants it out of what is available for your connection.

Answer 3

no hardware that you need to purchase because its free with your "activation fee". I too have Vonage and its "ok". They still need to work out some kinks in the system though. For example: It seems like 40% of the time I have trouble signing onto the website to make changes to my account, like call forwarding or turning my voicemail off. I've had to call customer service once and I got some dude in a foreign country, I believe it was India. So like I said its "ok" but far from perfect.