Posted:
Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject: Any Optimum online customers with Vonage out there?
I am still waiting for the phone adopter replacement and just curious about experiances of those with Optima Online(Cablevision) + Vonage. They are big competitors as far as VoIP goes. Optima is known for suffering lately from network overload and famous for throttling back downstream lately.
Any comments?
Last edited by crazyivan on Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:28 am; edited 1 time in total
dconnor Site Admin
Joined: Mar 05, 2003 Posts: 2135
Location: The Beach
Posted:
Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Any Optima online customers with Vonage out there?
crazyivan wrote:
I am still waiting for the phone adopter replacement and just curious about experiances of those with Optima Online(Cablevision) + Vonage. They are big competitors as far as VoIP goes. Optima is known for suffering lately from network overload and famous for throttling back downstream lately.
Any comments?
It is Optimum, not Optima and they have treated me just fine for many years. I have them in my home and my office.
The throttling back only comes to you if you host a webserver, VERY heavy P2P action or a FTP site, which are against their TOS.
One phone call gets you back to speed with a warning.
_________________ Have Questions? Need to speak to Vonage before signing up?
Call: 1-888-692-8074
Both Business and Residential customers can call and speak to a Vonage Sales Rep 24 hours a day.
For Vonage UK the number is 0808 168 1000
Well, i am aware about throttlinng down, because i actually got in trouble once and as you described, got off with the warning. But that was throttling down upstream to 154kbps.
Lately, and that actually created some serious waves at their (optimum) forum... people were complaining about download speed dropping big time once downloading something or uploading...and going back to normal as activity stops. And i`m not talking going down a bit... i saw it going from 9 mbps to 400kbps as i was downloading game update it was doing fine first 10 min...and then took huge drop. Once download finished... it went back up within 3-5 min - to 9mbps.
dconnor Site Admin
Joined: Mar 05, 2003 Posts: 2135
Location: The Beach
Well, i am aware about throttlinng down, because i actually got in trouble once and as you described, got off with the warning. But that was throttling down upstream to 154kbps.
Lately, and that actually created some serious waves at their (optimum) forum... people were complaining about download speed dropping big time once downloading something or uploading...and going back to normal as activity stops. And i`m not talking going down a bit... i saw it going from 9 mbps to 400kbps as i was downloading game update it was doing fine first 10 min...and then took huge drop. Once download finished... it went back up within 3-5 min - to 9mbps.
The sql db for this site is huge. I pull it down and push it back out to a secure server 4 times a day. Never an issue, on the phone the whole time, from home and on the business account.
Ask RickNY over on their forum (an OOL employee), he will tell you. You will be fine. OOL is the best ISP in the country, maybe only just now becoming second best to the new Verizon fiber service.
_________________ Have Questions? Need to speak to Vonage before signing up?
Call: 1-888-692-8074
Both Business and Residential customers can call and speak to a Vonage Sales Rep 24 hours a day.
For Vonage UK the number is 0808 168 1000
Last edited by dconnor on Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:07 am; edited 1 time in total
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Vonage Service Plans
Vonage VoIP Members
Members New annamr New Today 4 Yesterday 6 Total 55100 Who Is On Site Visitors 109 Members 0 Total 109
High-speed Internet required. Unlimited calling subject to normal residential use. Vonage 911 service operates differently than traditional 911. See www.vonage.com/911 for details. Alarms, TTY and other systems may not be compatible.
Thinking of signing up for Vonage but have questions? Business and Residential customers can call Toll Free 24 hours a day at: 1-888-692-8074 No Vonage Promotional Codes or Coupon Codes are required at www.vonage.com.
The Vonage Forum provides the Vonage Free
Month sign up Best Offer Promotion Deal as a means to offset
our cost. If you are considering signing up for Vonage and have found our Vonage
News, Customer Reviews, Forums & all other parts of this site useful, please
use our Vonage Free Month sign up offer Deal Coupon.
Vonage VoIP Phone Service is redefining communications by offering consumers & small business VoIP Internet phones, an affordable alternative to traditional phone service.
The Vonage VoIP Forum Generated This Page In: 0.43 Seconds and 196 Pages In The Last 60 Seconds The Vonage VoIP Forum
for Optimum
Members
New 
New Today 4
Yesterday 6
Total 55100
Who Is On Site
Visitors 109
Members 0
Total 109
-0.04