After three tech support calls totalling roughly 30 minutes of diagnostics and 50 minutes of holding, we concluded that the router was probably defective. Due to physical constraints related to the location where my landlord keeps the router, we weren't able to perform a few of the tests the technician wanted to try.
Does anyone else use Vonage? Has anyone had an experience similar to mine, either with Vonage or in general?
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`Doc got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
I recently ordered Vonage phone service, and received the router today.location where my landlord keeps the router
What?!
quote:Connected in series. Cable line -> landlord's router -> vonage's router -> my computer. However, they're in different rooms, and my landlord has his router in a spot that's very awkward to reach. He already gave me permission to perform maintenance and/or diagnostics as needed.
Densetsu really knows where their towel is...
What?!
`Doc fucked around with this message on 03-15-2006 at 08:59 PM.
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There was much rejoicing when Niklas said this:
I still don't understand why anyone would use Vonage over Skype.
publicity and name recognition.
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`Doc obviously shouldn't have said:
Connected in series. Cable line -> landlord's router -> vonage's router -> my computer. However, they're in different rooms, and my landlord has his router in a spot that's very awkward to reach. He already gave me permission to perform maintenance and/or diagnostics as needed.
wait, why?
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush
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ACES! Another post by Leftover Mog:
wait, why?
If I had to hazard a guess, I'm going to assume he's getting free internet from his landlord, and may be having issues stemming from port forwarding.
quote:Yep.
When they turned on the Infinite Improbability Drive, Demos stammered,
If I had to hazard a guess, I'm going to assume he's getting free internet from his landlord
quote:Nope. Before I can even implement port forwarding, the router needs to grab an IP. It wouldn't. The IP from my landlord's router passed straight through Vonage's router to my PC.
and may be having issues stemming from port forwarding.
quote:Skype only runs over a PC. In addition to the initial cost of buying a PC headset, and the ongoing cost of both SkypeOut (calling non-skype phones) and SkypeIn (incoming phone number), it depends on the PC being up and running. At the moment, I have no intention of leaving my PC running full time. Plus if the PC fails, down goes the skype phone with it (I already have that problem with my TV on occasion).
Ninety-nine bottles of Niklas on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of Niklas...
I still don't understand why anyone would use Vonage over Skype.
The new router arrived today. Hooked it up, and it's good to go. 
Good thing too, because the cable modem that was providing me with a phone line has either died or been deactivated. 
-H Hellbender fucked around with this message on 03-18-2006 at 08:45 AM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage's account was hax0red to write:
Isn't Skype made by the same folks who produced KAZA. Regardless of your stance on file sharing, wasn't KAZA a huge pile of debilitating spyware?
KaZaA, and yeah, it was. 
Even the 'Lite' version, which so many people swore had no spyware...
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Bloodsage was all like:
Isn't Skype made by the same folks who produced KAZA. Regardless of your stance on file sharing, wasn't KAZA a huge pile of debilitating spyware?
Yes but this time it's actually a serious business which makes money by actually making it rather than selling spyware space 
If it starts becoming spyware ridden, I'll stop using it. At the moment it's fantastic and really easy to use though.
