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VoIP (was) New Marine WiFi Product
Hi, Larry,
You've been sufficiently taken to task for most of what you wrote :{)) that I'll not repeat it. However... Larry wrote: (most snipped) Calling long distance from your cellphone to a telephone outside your and, there's the rub. If I'm not on a cell I'm out of communication, whether or not I care about having a computer up all the time. As you've frequently observed, power is our friend. When Engulf and Devour isn't at hand to offer us all the power we care to pay for, some of us have to watch our watts. So, between the necessity of having a computer on line all the time and needing some telephone to talk to it in order to make any call I wouldn't otherwise just use the phone aforementioned, I think I'll stick to this mode of telephony. Vonage sucks.....(c;.....You may quote me! Well, if you look at the little carat next to the above, I just did. However, I - and any other respondents that I've seen - don't agree. As it is, I'm about to drop my cell service. Despite their trumpeting, in billboards all over town, their being the company with the fewest dropped calls, my inability to get a Cingular (previously AT&T) signal makes it nearly worthless, at least here. Of course, down island, it would be worthless anyway, so this just accelerates the obvious - I don't need a cell phone. Of course, if I were running a service business, and I had good cell coverage, I agree I'd need one. However, I'm hopeful I don't make global (pardon the expression - Vonage works globally if you have a wifi signal) statements about utility or suitability to a purpose... I've found Vonage to be very valuable; were I still in a wired environment, that's what I'd do, again. Any reading this who think they agree, please drop me a note so I can refer you - we'll both get a free month if you take the service... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at and "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." -- There's amazing intelligence in the Universe. You can tell because none of them ever called Earth. |
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VoIP (was) New Marine WiFi Product
Vonage works globally if you have a wifi signal
No, it only works if you've got a stable signal that has good throughput. Which proves to be quite a challenge in the assortment of location I've tried, albeit within the limited confines of Chesapeake north of the Potomac. I'm sure signal coverage varies greatly in different areas but I'd never assume it'd (wifi) be reliable enough to depend on it being present and usable. Cellular data services are often more reliable but sometimes slower (usually) and not without their billing issues. So using a p2p shared system like skype could potentially be a real problem. The nice part is there are choices. With today's level of deployment there's not enough to make it reliable but at least it's *possible*. Adjust your expectations accordingly. |
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