i'm in the future!

i’ve gone all digital.

phone-wise, that is. vonage finally got the ability to let me keep my main telephone number, so i put in the big switch last week, and it cut over today. now we’re using voice over ip for our phone, which basically feeds it through our dsl line and makes telephone calls over the internet.

our phone works just as normal with all the same features as before (except privacy manager). call waiting, caller id, call waiting id all work great. and free long distance, voice mail, etc.

and then you can also do wonky things like check your voice mail online, and forward your home phone to another phone, like your cell when you’re not around. and the cool thing is that if you do that, caller id still works properly, passing through the id of the actual original caller, not your home phone. which is of course how it should work, but you can see how it stupidly might not. but it does!

the quality seems to be fine, although a couple of people claimed that it sounded like i was really far off. but they sounded fine on my end.

all that for $25/month. which beats the hell out of the $70/month i was paying sbc for a similar flat rate unlimited calling package.

hm, it looks like i did miss out on a free month of service for me and someone else by not having someone refer me. sorry, burnin’ steph! i should refer someone and save everyone money! everyone sign up now!

meanwhile, vonage actually had a big outage today. hooray for the bleeding edge!

Posted at August 12, 2004 11:44 PM