I love my Vonage.  

Here's my most expensive phone bill yet:

International Calls for 1-(763)-XXX-XXXX (28/Nov-27/Dec) $17.20 
Virtual Phone Number for 1-(601)-XXX-XXXX (28/Dec-27/Jan) $4.99 
Premium Unlimited Plan for 1-(763)-XXX-XXXX (28/Dec-27/Jan) $24.99 
FET Tax $1.42 
Regulatory Recovery Fee $3.00 
Total Amount $51.60 

I'm paying 4.99/mo to keep my old Mississippi phone number.  Paying
less than $5 in robbery^H^H^H^H^H^H taxes..

They sent me all the hardware I needed, and I had no problems getting
it up and running behind a LinkSys BEFSR41 router (I'll send you the
port maps if you like, they're simple).

I tell anyone I can get to listen to switch to Vonage, especially if
you call long distance in the USA.

I'll send you a coupon for a free month to give it a shot.

Jim



On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:20:32 -0600, Ben Bargabus <ben_b at ppdonline.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the off topic post but I remember reading a bit about this at
> some point and I'm fairly sure it was on this list.  I'm getting a
> little sick of my $120/month phone bills and was thinking about going to
> Vonage to cut that back a bit.  I seem to remember someone here posting
> that you can have Qwest DSL without having Qwest phone service, is that
> [still] true?  Looking at my itemized bill from Qwest I have the
> following items...
> 
> Digital Subscriber Line Res - $14.95
> Qwest Choice DSL Dlx - $28.00
> Caller ID - $6.95
> Line-backer Inside Wire Repair Plan - $4.75
> Voice Messaging - $6.95
> Qwest.net Internet Services - $21.95
> [Misc local fees] - $13.52
> [Misc AT&T fees] - $10.79
> [long distance tax and surcharge] - $1.82
> 
> If I dump Qwest other than for my DSL connection do I just pay the
> $28.00 Qwest DSL Dlx fee or do I still pay for the basic line fee too?
> Does Vonage have similar taxes and access charges to Qwest or are they
> truly $25/month out the door?  Qwest.net doesn't do a thing for me as a
> service provider so continuing to pay $21.95/month for them seems silly,
> can someone recommend a good but cheap alternative for DSL access as an
> ISP?  I really don't need anything but the other end of my connection.
> I don't care about static IPs, I don't need phone support, I don't need
> web server space, I don't even need a POP account.  The only things I'd
> like are that they keep up with the 640kb I get from Qwest and that they
> don't cap total transfer bandwidth over any period of time (not that I
> really transfer that much but I don't want to have to worry about it).
> 
> Vonage users, did you have to purchase any hardware to make the system
> work?  Did the hardware they provide (if any) just plug right into your
> network hub/switch and run?  Anything you wish you'd known ahead of time
> that you can pass on to a potential customer?
> 
> Again, sorry for being off topic.
> Ben.
> 
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