Some real advice about v phone-softphone

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Hi, I am setting up my own home office. I currently have Vonage unlimited/ a wireless intranet and have nothing bad to report about that service. My situation is I need a seperate business phone number for my new employment which allows me to work from home. I have read this forum and understand most people say the soft phone stinks. I plan to use a desktop and will be doing heavy dut y email and word processing most of the time. The V phone sounds like the better choice to go with My major concern is how does this affect the overall bandwith of the system. Occasionally my husband will work from home and we have no problems with his laptop,desktop,and my desktop being on the internet and him on a phone call. I guess I am concerned will this potential new telephone service overload the whole configuration and should I bite the bullet and get my own cable modem installed in my own office area and then add on vonage. Anyone have similar two home offices in use at the same time configuration? Thanks for any help! Surprised

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mjl55 wrote:

Anyone have similar two home offices in use at the same time configuration? Thanks for any help! Surprised

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I'm currently running 4 Vonage lines here, on a 6Mbps cable connection -- two regular voice lines, one fax line, and one softphone line. Everything (softphone included) works great, although admittedly we don't tax the phone system all that heavily.

The Vonage Softphone has worked just fine over here. I'm running it on a few PowerPC-based Macintoshes, and it's been nothing but rock solid. The only "issues" I've ever had with it have been when connecting from my laptop to flaky WiFi connections -- but that's the nature of flaky connections when used with a real-time protocol like the telephone. My girlfriend and I went to a hotel a few weeks ago, and I brought my laptop and Airport Express (a tiny WiFi router), plugged the Airport Express into the wired Internet connection in the room, and made calls just like we were at home without issue.

HTH!

Yaz.