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.

someone care to explain what ooma is?

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.

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?

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.

This place is getting as bad as Bens. Thanks OP. Its worth a look see.

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

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