My internet connection is Road Runner and it is very fast download but only 100KB upload. When I used them for the telephone service It worked fine. My Sister in law convinced us to go to Earthlink's voip to save a few bucks. It was barely usable. It sounded fine on my end but the other end was subjected to dropouts and fading. The tech support folks beyond belief. They informed me that I could not have more than one phone in the house and it had to be attached with less than 3 feet of wire to the voip modem. Further, they had a deal with Road Runner that prohibited me from going back to Road Runner. So, I went back to Southern Bell who by now was afraid of losing all their business to cable & cell. They had a plan that provided unlimited long distance for the same price as the Road Runner service I can no longer get. The quality was poor and outages were frequent. Then AT&T reacquired the assets of Southern Bell. Since then the phone service works as advertised, even the answering machine part when I am on the phone. The blinker on the phone may or may not blink as it should with a call on the answering machine but life is too short to spend training the phone company. There is a good reason that the cell phone has more numbers in the US than the Landlines! John Ferrell W8CCW "Life is easier if you learn to plow around the stumps" http://DixieNC.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter van Hoof" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:25 PM Subject: [OT] VOIP Telephone service experience > Hi all, > > I am considering switching from a landline to a VOIP service > such as Vonage to reduce cost. I am wondering about experience > with such service, recommendations of one company or another etc. > > Do the boxes typically drive several phones at the same > time (ringer equivalent)? > > I want to run it over a Verizon DSL connection. N.E. PA. > > Thanks for your time reading and responding > > Peter van Hoof > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist