I was at Costco today in Gaithersburg,MD, saw a big display of Ooma priced at $199.00 with 2 months Premier service and no free International. Not sure if this was posted before or if its a good deal, just thought to let everyone know.
Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
You know nothing of what you speak, at least with regard to ooma.
RickShaw
Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 3:25p
Looks like someone's had sh^T for breakfast. I've been using OOMA for many months without any issues and know tons of other people using other VOIP without any problems. Mr. "best" Howz life in the stone ages these days BTW?? You may crawl back under the rock now....
imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
Well it's obvious who's threadcrapping and trolling. That's besides the point.
Anyways, it seems that you two have this service. Their site isn't all that helpful so I'm guessing asking people here might be better. It seems that you can only plug 1 phone device into the system? What about the other phones throughout the house? I have about 5 phones from the 2nd floor to the basement. Could this system compensate for all lines throughout the house?
bigdaddycincinnati said: imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
You know nothing of what you speak, at least with regard to ooma.
It's unreliabe,3rd world crap. Ooma. Give me a break.
cdominey
Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 3:43p
The ooma system (unless they've changed it) comes with one ooma "scout" that you can use on another phone in your house. Though it's useless if you have one of those wireless phone systems with one base station and multiple sets.
I am very reluctant to commit the dollar sum to this. Who knows when this company will go under? On the other hand, just paid MagicJack $59 for 5 years service. I am praying every day that MagicJack will stay alive....
cdominey said: The ooma system (unless they've changed it) comes with one ooma "scout" that you can use on another phone in your house. Though it's useless if you have one of those wireless phone systems with one base station and multiple sets.
So you get one phone that is connected to the router or modem, and then use the scout for another? 2 phones throughout the house? A reviewer said you have to get additional scouts if you want to use more phones, that's ridiculous.
LOL at the for MagicJack to stay alive.
Someone needs to ban that troll imthebest, go on youtube to flame. I'm guessing he works for the phone company or something.
wallyeve
New Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 4:14p
until MagicJack creates a network phone that people can use, people will lose more money having to leave their computer on to justify the savings they get from MagicCrap
wallyeve said: until MagicJack creates a network phone that people can use, people will lose more money having to leave their computer on to justify the savings they get from MagicCrap
i think you can use MagicJack with voip(sip) phones. few weeks ago someone posted MagicJack hack. try googling
I use ooma. It's great. if you want to use more than one phone and have a base phone with all the extention units, ooma will work fine. Otherwise you need more scouts. As per the service, its great and sounds just as good as a landline and a lot better than Vonage. For those users that had problems, they probably didn't realize that you can change the call quality settings over the web. If you buy it from costco and ooma goes out of business, you can return it to them.
This has worked out well for me. I have been using them for over 6 months now so financially it makes sense.
wallyeve said: until MagicJack creates a network phone that people can use, people will lose more money having to leave their computer on to justify the savings they get from MagicCrap
That's pure nonsense. An efficient computer such as an eee box or a netbook will only cost you around $20 a year to run 24/7. You can easily save 20-30 times that a year if you can replace your landline service with something like MagicJack.
I've had ooma for a few months now and it's *AWESOME*.
You can plug as many phones in as you want, just wire it correctly. It works best when you aren't using DSL because you can do the following in this case...
Plug your modem into Ooma, and then Ooma's phone jack into the phone line outlet in the wall. Now, assuming you have unplugged your Landline in the basement, every phone in your house will find service through the Ooma box. You are basically replacing Verizon's service with Ooma's. You can also plug it directly into one phone, and use Scouts to wire other phones directly. But I personally prefer the first method I mentioned.
You can use this with DSL, too, but you can't plug the phone line from Ooma back into the same circuitry that the DSL signals are going through; Ooma will interfere with DSL and vice-versa. If you place a DSL filter inbetween Ooma and the wall it'll work OK, but then you lose the ability to plug in other Scouts. Another nice solution is to just buy a set of handsets, like Panasonics set of 4 that all operate out of one base station (but each handset gets its own charger). Then you simply plug "one phone" into Ooma but 4 phones in your house all run through it.
You can't be $200 for life... sure they may go bankrupt, but with most phone bills being over $60/mo, so long as they last half a year you at least break even
MuttsterDog
Happy Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 6:15p
imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
Had it since it first came out at $399. 2 lines, quality equal or better than POTS, voicemail also available online, no computer or router needed - I love it. I just may buy another for my kid when he goes to college (wired ethernet in the dorm).
inda
Ancient Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 6:23p
Well, the one thing with all of the VOIP services...dial 911 and see where it ends up.
One of my neighbors had to prove her 911 worked when she was setting up her home based day care business. During the testing process, first time took over an hour to be routed correctly, subsequent tests were not sucessful and was told to keep a landline active to be certified.
MrTweaker said: Had it since it first came out at $399. 2 lines, quality equal or better than POTS, voicemail also available online, no computer or router needed - I love it. I just may buy another for my kid when he goes to college (wired ethernet in the dorm).
Same here we have been using Ooma for secondary phone service since it was released . However recent Ooma equipment price cuts and two badly needed empergency cash infusions are worrisome to say the least. Accorrding to Ooma back when their equipment was selling for around $300 they were loosing money on the equipment and their infrastructure premium service. Given the price is now another $100+ lower it is doubtful that Ooma will survive at least with its current no fee service. At this point I certainly would not port my main number to Ooma. The best way to think of ooma is that you are purchasing open-ended prepaid phone service. For $200 if you get6 months of service it has more than paidfor itself. Anything beyond is simply gravy.
imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
BIG RED FOR YOU, obviously you have nothing better to do or say.
until MagicJack creates a network phone that people can use, people will lose more money having to leave their computer on to justify the savings they get from MagicCrap
Not necessary,
1. You can hack your Sunrocket gizmo to use it with MagicJack 2. Get a HP thin client. The thin client costs about $100 on eBay. It does not have moving part, consumes little energy and last almost forever.
I have been using MagicJack with HP thin client for over two years now. The calling quality is superb. The service is very stable...
pls note that this is just for the ooma system, the scout is not included
Ok Found it here- http://blog.ooma.com/2009/06/23/costco-refer-a-friend/ Anchorage, AK Waipahu, HI Anchorage, AK Oak Brook, IL Phoenix, AZ Gaithersburg, MD Alhambra, CA Bloomfield, MI Chula Vista, CA Clackamas, OR Folsom, CA Houston, TX Rancho Cucamonga, CA San Antonio, TX South San Francisco, CA Arlington, VA East Jacksonville, FL Tukwila, WA Naples, FL Bayamon, Puerto Rico
SeniorChief said: someone educate me, why use a voip service when there's Skype, apparenly much cheaper?
Skype is VOIP For most applications Skype is software based and requires a device with an OS to use (ie PC or smartphone) whereas OOMA is 100% hardware based. Skype voice quiality and reliability is a HUGE YMMV. OOMA provides more consistent quality and availability There is no really totally free Skype service. At least for now OOMA only requires a one time equipment purchase for domestic US calls. Skype has no real TELCO equipment integration like OOMA.
Vmlinux
Tired Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 9:59p
My media pc is on 24x7 anyways. When I want to go watch a show on the TV I don't want to wait for it to boot up. It also is my backup server that all my important data from all over the house aggregates to. I put Magic Jack on it, disconnected from the telco, then connected my Magic Jack to the home phone jack in the garage. Now all my phones and fax machines in the house work for 20 dollars a day. My local line was 25 bucks a month, there's no way that one PC eats 300 bucks a year in electricity. Heck that's one out of 4 or 5 machines I have on all the time in the house lol.
RickShaw said: Looks like someone's had sh^T for breakfast. I've been using OOMA for many months without any issues and know tons of other people using other VOIP without any problems. Mr. "best" Howz life in the stone ages these days BTW?? You may crawl back under the rock now....
imthebest said: Yeah, thanks..big deal. Just another stupid, poor quality, internet based phone service. 90% of the people that use Vonage and all that other stupid crap internet connection switch back to Verizon or their local carrier for home use.Oh yeah, almost forgot. Red for you.
I'm very tempted to try Ooma too but not sure what happen if they go out of business in the future. If it goes out of business next 2 or 3 years, you will not save much. I do see there is a trend of using this type of VOIP phone. If this is a trend, there will be more competitors in the game, the price will just keep going down in the future and the service will be more reliable, right? I was right about the 46" Samsung LCD TV and the price is just keep going down. Same thing will happen in the VOIP too. I do believe that it is a good technology but I will wait a little until the service gets better and the price gets lower.
cnIsfg said: SeniorChief said: someone educate me, why use a voip service when there's Skype, apparenly much cheaper?
Skype is VOIP For most applications Skype is software based and requires a device with an OS to use (ie PC or smartphone) whereas OOMA is 100% hardware based. Skype voice quiality and reliability is a HUGE YMMV. OOMA provides more consistent quality and availability There is no really totally free Skype service. At least for now OOMA only requires a one time equipment purchase for domestic US calls. Skype has no real TELCO equipment integration like OOMA.
I have used Skype for several years, primarily for phone calls to my wife in the US when I'm working overseas. Skype to Skype calls, as of last month, were totally free. I have used Skype in at least a dozen third world countries, usually via DSL on a satellite link, with no problems as far as the Skype software is concerned.
Sometimes I have encountered problems, mostly dropped connections, or fading in and out, and the problem has always turned out to be the local ISP.
You can purchase inexpensive USB phone adapters, such as the one made by D-Link, so that every phone in the house is hooked up to the Skype computer connection. This is a great convenience, and allows for very good telco equipment integration.
Bottom line: Skype is an excellent service, and the price is right - free Skype to Skype. I find their prices for Skype Out (calls to non Skype phones) to be very reasonable. I would suggest giving Skype a try for free, before putting out big bucks for a paid service such as Ooma.
felow2k said: What if you moved? The phone number is tie with the OOMA unit? Yep!
x0x0x
New Member
posted: Jul. 21, 2009 @ 11:31p
how's it different from ViaTalk or better than MagicJack ?
I would rate MagicJack as 1 (only downside is keeping comp on, unless you do the router hack) and ViaTalk $189 2 years above OOMA
duckfan5554
Member
posted: Jul. 22, 2009 @ 12:29a
Wow! There's nothing that generates more hostility and red on this forum than one of these VOIP phone companies. If you ask a question like "What the heck is Ooma?" or dare to find fault with their service you're guaranteed a big red bar on your post. I'm glad to see the old Sunrocket fanatics have found a new cause celebre. By the way, have any of you gotten refunds?
duckfan5554 said: I'm glad to see the old Sunrocket fanatics have found a new cause celebre. By the way, have any of you gotten refunds? I did, as did many who bothered to dispute the charge. But that's not the point. The point is, every method of communication has its uses for its advantages. Even two cups and a string has its advantages (simple, cheap equipment, reliable and free service, doesn't depend on internet, or fiber network, immune to EMP blasts etc etc). MagicJack, Skyype (by greedbay), cell phones - can't replace landline service to the degree standard VOIP service does. The guy who got red clearly has issues.
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