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Originally Posted by mikeinmunich
New forum user, so Hi all. 
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So 2 questions
1 Has anyone tried this service?
2. They say that all I need is a free adapter to attatch to my cable modem, but after viewing their website, it looks like I need an adapter with a built in router, which costs 9.99. Can anyone clarify? |
Yes me, I signed up via the website very late last Wednesday night and the hardware arrived by courier on Friday morning. It consists of a very small black box, all pre-configured, which you plug into a router and plug you conventional analogue phone into into the socket on it. And thats all you need to do.
The black box is effectively free (it does cost £9.99 but they credit it back to you), subscription is £5.99 per month for six months then £7.99 per month, unlimited 'free' call to all UK geographic numbers i.e. those starting 01 and 02 and call to mobiles being between 15p and 5p per minute depending on time of day. Call quality is just fine, certainly as good as the fixed line, I have it set on the highest quality which uses about 90kbits of bandwidth.
Now I already had a router attached to the VM cable modem so for me it was literally plug-in an go. If you just have a single PC connected directly to the cable modem then you will need to get some kind of router. Vonage do supply one but personally I think you can do better by getting your own - something like a Linksys WRT54G which will be about £40 or so.
My apologies-I seem to have just about repeated SMHarman's post above, must remember to read the whole thread properly before replying