| Vonage I will vouch for that! Service was down today between noon and 2 PM in Canada. From
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| Vonage Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Vonage is currently a private company. Can
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| Vonage I'm not sure what problems the outage caused in the US. Nobody seems to have mentioned
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| Vonage It would be a nice feature.
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| Vonage I am happy to say that Vonage has recently fixed this problem. Now in Canada, you
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| Vonage It would be nice if there was some way to download call activity to a .csv or other
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| Vonage Trek:
Poor example?
1st: I did not list my exhaustive complaint list with
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| Vonage Please take this kindly, but I believe you are sorely mistaken if you think regulations
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| Vonage Well, at the verge of being flamed.... I stand with my opinion... Regulate Vonage.
"My"
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| Vonage This is interesting. I have never experienced that sort of problem with 3-way
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| Vonage Amusing bringing up ONE isolated example of a regulated service failing. In 20
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| Vonage July 10, 2004 Letter of Authorization (LOA) Received
July 10, 2004 Transfer
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| Vonage I don't see why not if you want to. I do and it does me no harm, but it really isn't required.
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| Vonage Interesting.
I have a business. I have 3 T1's (in various configurations)
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| Vonage My emails, calls, forum posts & messages, etc seem to have gone unnoticed
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| Vonage I thought I'd get used to the new envelope icons here, but I haven't. My brain sees
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| Vonage Sorry... I should have scrolled down to the end of the other thread!
Thanks
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| Vonage Regulation is not the answer. Vonage and all VoIP providers are different services
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| Vonage ...Site layout is not very good.
Frequently used items, such as login and
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| Vonage Look, I have been on forums like this for years. Darn near decades :) I even did remote
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| Vonage Please take this kindly, but I believe you are sorely mistaken if you think regulations
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| Vonage My vonage line has been working OK. I'm in the GTA too.
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| Vonage Good luck. My eight month anniversary is less than a week away, and as you can see
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| Vonage Im looking through my dashboard right now, and see nothing under service announcements.
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| Vonage I agree, service needs to improve. Its also discouraging when you read press releases
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| Vonage If you look on another thread, it seems that most of the network was down. Not too
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| Vonage As posted in the other thread, I just had a brief outage here in Northeast Ohio (Cleveland/Akron
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| Vonage I had the outage earlier today, Friday 3/4/05 and now I just experienced another
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| Vonage Well, if Vonage's switches were full a while ago, it's definitely a "Vonage problem",
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| Vonage Well I tried to make calls EVERYWHERE just about, and got nothing. I even had friends
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| Vonage Vonage has switchs, just like cell phone companys have switchs, Vonages switch
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| Vonage Update...all three numbers, including VM retrieval, work fine now. Maybe a temporary
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| Vonage Well, at the verge of being flamed.... I stand with my opinion... Regulate Vonage.
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| Vonage Well, something is wrong, even if it's regionally, and it's not a cell phone provider.
Calls
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| Vonage Amusing bringing up ONE isolated example of a regulated service failing. In 20
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| Vonage All is fine here, just called my wife in the kitchen.
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| Vonage And incoming calls are being diverted immediately to voicemail... and not ringing
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| Vonage From my experience with a cell phone provider, all circuts busy and a fast busy
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| Vonage All attempts to call are now fast busy signals, even to two numbers sitting right
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| Vonage This is rediculous. Im down yet AGAIN, and so are all of my friends here in Portland,
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| Vonage IMHO:
If you need QoS get a router that has QoS. The TAs that are "routers" do
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| Vonage Dont use wireless jack systems. Our website says we support them, and we do, however
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| Vonage vonage has little incentive to increase local carrier capacity. more capacity
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| Vonage Interesting.
I have a business. I have 3 T1's (in various configurations)
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| Vonage Lot of people having drops calls after 5 mins etc just seems they should work on
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| Vonage luckilly my "interconnection box" was a phone jack in my apartment. it had two
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| Vonage OK I took notice that on all my surge protectors I have phones ports...input and
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| Vonage My humble opinion - [1 year user now - three lines]
Take a 6 hour and 12 hour ping
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| Vonage melbourne...aren't you in the 321 area code? do they do 10 digit dialing out there
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| Vonage -= NO ONE ON THE PHONE =-
Download 1,337,832 bps
Upload 253,680 bps
QOS 80%
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| Vonage My smother-in-law has Wireless to the house (and garage and yard...)
We tried
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| Vonage I am sorry that you are having problems. I have been through the same thing - only
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| Vonage We've had Vonage for almost two years and the voice quality was great until January
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| Vonage ...Site layout is not very good.
What an awesome way to respond, Dan. Perfectly
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| Vonage This will be my last post in this thread because it really is off topic, but I do want
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| Vonage I don't think of myself as a newbie, maybe on the forum, but I've been with vonage
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| Vonage One thing I notice, regardless of my browsers window size, I still have the scroll
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| Vonage Thank to reeboks input, we did find and correct an issue that was effecting site
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| Vonage I am more than open to any suggestions that you might have.
Some of the more senior
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| Vonage i didn't know dan runs this himself on his own. Great job Dan! Rebus is right, who
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| Vonage THANK YOU!!!1
http://www.sjlabs.com/products/SJphonePkg-Vonage.exe
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| Vonage Located this in one of the news services:
Vonage Internet Service Has Outage
Vonage,
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| Vonage I've heard some people have been successful getting refunds from Vonage for the
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| Vonage Oh, and for the softphone, see:
http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html
and
http://www.vonage-forum.
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| Vonage Look on the left side of the page, just above the orange boxes with white lettering
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| Vonage I have been waiting over a month to get my phone number switched. The problem I have
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| Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/searchforums.html
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| Vonage Does anyone know the link to download it, I can't find it and I've been searching
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| Vonage Well there you go .. looks like it was a software bug :wink:
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| Vonage I also had this problem and searched the help files on Vonage.com.
If you have
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| Vonage Just a heads-up, this is not an official Vonage forum. It's an independent site
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| Vonage The fact vonage is willing to host a forum and leave themselves at the mercy of complainers
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| Vonage Just a heads-up, this is not an official Vonage forum. It's an independent site
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| Vonage Well, here's my opinion. For a VoIP service with the reliability of POTS and E911,
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| Vonage Oh yeah, I've been through all that. Do a search for all my posts. I already have
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| Vonage Vonage has been wonderful for me, including the past two days. I never noticed
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| Vonage Well, I'm a newbie, and I am VERY VERY satisfied with Vonage.
When I experienced
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| Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/voip-speed-test/
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| Vonage I do not have wireless internet coming into my house, but I would guess it would
|
| Vonage Uhmmmm, I haven't had any problems whatsoever today.
No outages at all.
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| Vonage Reboot the VOIP
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| Vonage Is there a reset like this for the Motorola V1005?
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| Vonage I'll try to get back into it tomorrow but as you said - I prefer the first method too.
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| Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/voip-speed-test/
Go here with NO one on
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| Vonage As a network engineer by profession, I would tend to agree for the most part. But,
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| Vonage Wireless Broadband has issues very different then hard wired. They send out pulses
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| Vonage Internet coming to my house via wireless. There are no other options where I live.
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| Vonage I have my wireless router after my linksys vonage box and my cable modem and everything
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| Vonage You do know you have a choice in phone services. No one is making you stay with Vonage.
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| Vonage My Results
Download 4,108,272 bps
Upload 229,760 bps
QOS 75%
RTT 38 ms
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| Vonage Anyone?
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| Vonage I got that same tech the other night! I don't imagine there are too many named Will.
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| Vonage Hope he got the point on why they do that...
If you want to know when you posted
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| Vonage Exactly. If the network your VoIP is traveling doesn't use QOS, you aren't going
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| Vonage I have wireless internet and have found Vonage to be useless depending on the time
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| Vonage As long as it is part of the Internet, there is some things they can not control.
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| Vonage No sweat. What I meant was pretty much what you said- that anytime a service problem
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| Vonage We can't have the FCC regulating Vonage. If we did we'd see the FUSF charge, the
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| Vonage I had lots of Caller ID issues. I put the V1005 behind a router and seems to have stopped
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| Vonage Ok.. now deploying a new PBX I can believe.. sounds like ... yup... this should
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| Vonage yes, that e-mail addy gets answered within a day.. but they will tel lyou to pls
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| Vonage Why in the name of God would you want big brother watching over you and Vonage? If
|
| Vonage I have the same problem with no caller ID. I do though have caller id on the temp number
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| Vonage On August 11, 2004 I requested a number transfer, and immediately filled out the
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| Vonage The only thing I can say that maybe I overlooked is that they are deploying a new
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| Vonage Correct. Most phone bills have an FCC charge of a few bucks, a recovery charge (EUCL
|
| Vonage Jitter Min: 0 ms
Avg: 11 ms
Max: 1526 ms
Jitter Min: 4 ms
Avg: 6 ms
Max:
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| Vonage Vonage Internet service has outage
By BRUCE MEYERSON
AP BUSINESS WRITER
NEW
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| Vonage I prefer your first set up because it ensures a higher Quality Of Service (Qos),
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| Vonage Regulation does not necessarily make things more expensive. In fact, if phone
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| Vonage I'm new here and I don't have any of your experience yet. I ordered voip from vonage
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| Vonage It's really pretty simple.
If you don't like the service, don't buy it.
I
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| Vonage I have used both a Hypercom and Tranz terminal with no issues. These systems typically
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| Vonage I use a Hypercom T7P for credit card processing through Vonage and a Linksys PAP2,
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| Vonage Just thought I'd pass along my connection information just in case somebody else
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| Vonage Stop all this we won the blocking war and fix your network. Vonage should ASAP stop
|
| Vonage seems to be back up now in NY state. got a few forwarded calls noted on my call log.
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| Vonage Thanks...I will leave it the way I have it now.
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| Vonage Correct, but lets face it, they usually go hand in hand.
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| Vonage Funny thing you should mention that. When I was on the phone with Vonage today,
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| Vonage Although I am very upset with Vonage right now, the fact is that EVERY big company
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| Vonage The question here would be "why?". The surge protectors you're referring to are
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| Vonage No, not right.
Regulation means a certain standard for X thing must be achieved.
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| Vonage Im for regulation. Yes, the government fees will make the overall price go up,
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| Vonage OK I took notice that on all my surge protectors I have phones ports...input and
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| Vonage Ditto.
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| Vonage I still think reglation will be cause for a much higher price than it is now, and
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| Vonage I know I'm setting myself up to be burned to a crisp but I gotta say it.
I do applaud
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| Vonage you were one of the lucky ones, Mine did not forward :( it just kept on ringing and
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| Vonage But don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not for government regulation. I declare
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| Vonage mrkleen, see my post above. I think I answered your question pretty thoroughly.
|
| Vonage My current setup:
Cable Modem -> NetGear Wireless Router -> Motorola
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| Vonage I may be wrong but, if the fed starts "regulating" VOIP, what is the point to having
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| Vonage Yeah Neutral, I see your point. The thing is, I was so happy with Vonage in my residence,
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| Vonage i've been at work all day and had 2 calls to my cell that were forwarded from my home
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| Vonage I will second that!
|
| Vonage I think it's great that you own a business, and you're trying to save money. However,
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| Vonage I would check that router... it sounds like those goofballs at customs may have
|
| Vonage I have the same issue as you and I am on COX with 5MB down/ 768KBUP so i doubt its an
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| Vonage My motivating factor was reduced cost, regardless of where the savings come from.
|
| Vonage I have to agree with trek234. My wife and I own a restaurant which focuses on call-in
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| Vonage Usually companies do their upgrades at night like RR was doing the other night
|
| Vonage exactly ;)
"A business plan without a backup plan, is no plan at all."
|
| Vonage I have to say that my service has not been down all day. In fact - today is the first
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| Vonage the problem with access to www.vonage.com with telmex infnitum was for 2 or 3 days,
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| Vonage Great forum, discovered this because of the outage today, and have been looking
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| Vonage ACR? ;-)
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| Vonage A business could already BE saving hundreds of dollars by using Vonage for outgoing
|
| Vonage So... what exactly *IS* the upgrade? It must be pretty extensive to take out the
|
| Vonage What make and model of Cable Modem are you using?
|
| Vonage LOL, no, thank you :)
|
| Vonage yes, but networks don't just crash..... something caused it to crash.. either
|
| Vonage Here's what my vonage web page shows:
I suspect that the outages yesterday
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| Vonage My point exactly.... it's bad enough to offer a marginal service and horrible
|
| Vonage Dan, Thanks for the laugh.
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| Vonage According to jdr30 who is a Vonage employee, Vonage's Dashboard notice is a smokescreen:
At
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| Bandwidth_has_stabalized_now_Calls_are_completing_properly_All_websites-post-20561.html
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| Vonage ANYONE who would do a software upgrade in the middle of the day should be hung from
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| Vonage I don't belive that that was rebus' intent at all. He was simply stating the fact
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| Vonage So instead they publish an outright lie?
That doesn't sound like solid business
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| Vonage Yeah "really". You must have missed the opening line where I said:
Additionally,
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| Vonage From the Vonage Website:
"Due to a software upgrade in process, some customers
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| Vonage In 3+ months of being on Vonage, this past week was the first time I've experienced
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| Vonage When it is all fixed they should send an email about the problem to all of their customers.
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| Vonage
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| Vonage It was a network failure but they did not want to put
Sorry, all inbound/outbound
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| Vonage From lightreading.com:
"The timing couldn't have been worse, as VOIP providers
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| Vonage Dan, Bangladesh aint in Burma. It's in Ireland.
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| Vonage Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing
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| Vonage I had Verizon in SE Pennsylvania. The biggest doubt I had was more psychological
|
| Vonage Yes. I was experiencing the same thing. It's almost as if the Vonage Servers kept
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| Vonage FROM THE DASHBOARD
Due to a software upgrade in process, some customers may
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| Vonage You don't have to disconnect your RT31P2 to ping test:
How to Make RT31P2 “Pingable”:
1.
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| Vonage I'm in SE Pennsylvania, and my Verizon # was completely switched with no problems
|
| Vonage Initial media reporting on the outage
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&
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| Here_are_the_usual_answers_to_your_problem_http_www_vonage_com_help_knowledgeBase_article_php-post-20542.html
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| Vonage let's see ..... 20 minutes vs an hour..... hmmmm......
Oh, and so glad you
|
| Vonage For weeks I have had numerous issues with Vonage....fast busy on outbound, ring
|
| Vonage I did sign up in january 14 and I did call to vonage as existing customer. My average
|
| Vonage Multiple handsets work great, if you choose to use the wireless phone adapters
|
| Vonage I just picked up a dual handset cordless phone off of EBay the other day for $40.
|
| Vonage Somebody just did PM to me.
PM to unhappy customer to happy customer.
I
|
| Vonage Does anyone out there have quality issues associated with the use of COX and their
|
| Vonage So are you saying that regulars are somehow better than newbies?? Are you saying
|
| Vonage Vonage has over 400,000 customer and here on this site only less than 7000 customer...........
|
| Vonage We're using the Linksys RT31P2-VD on all Vonage lines. The TalkSwitch firmware
|
| Vonage Hopefully VOIPs will have coverage for everything that way friends/family locally
|
| Vonage Our number was just transferred to Vonage last week - so we've only truly been Vonage
|
| Vonage We've had several outages in the past few months, but I'm still not complaining.
|
| Vonage Hi everyone, My company has had Vonage for 18 months or longer and overall availablility
|
| Vonage Ha, ha, thanks for the good laugh :)
|
| Vonage A lot, if you live in Bangladesh, Burma...
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| Vonage Got my third router from vonage.
Took the advice of Mark WI - Big Cheese :P
Thanks
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| Vonage That password didn't work. Have another password?
|
| Vonage I just switched from Time Warner Cables "Road Runner" VOIP to Vonage because of
|
| Vonage hello!
im using a linksys phone adapter for vonage and i want to purchase a
|
| Vonage I have a question. The people that are having problems with Tivo and Vonage, why
|
| Vonage What ATA are you using?
Please check the support section of the TalkSwitch site
|
| Vonage once in a while i'll get a problem getting to my account website and voicemail,
|
| Vonage What is the significance of having a timestamp of GMT + 6hrs on forum entries?
|
| Vonage who are we kidding? they just wanted new forum members (saves on CS costs, right?)
Forum
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| Vonage http://www.radioshack.com/category.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F008%5F004%5F00
|
| Vonage There are currently many TalkSwitch customers using Vonage service by connecting
|
| Vonage I understand how this could be a great service if the people wishing to call you
|
| Vonage Any area code beginning in 8 where the 2nd and 3rd digits match is toll free. Not
|
| Vonage i'm in the GTA and my Vonage service has not been working for most of the day. The
|
| Vonage E-mail pr@vonage.ca! The more people that e-mail about this problem, the faster
|
| Vonage Perhaps this will help you out:
http://www.vonage-forum.com/home-wiring-installation-guide.html
|
| Vonage Two things I don't understand:
1. How can you not like the song. It is catchy
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| Vonage E-mail pr@vonage.ca... and request 911 service :)
The more people that e-mail
|
| Vonage I'm impressed that the two of you have received dates (tentative or otherwise).
|
| Vonage I am having the same problem. They just sit in my Outbox. How does one "send now"
|
| Vonage It seems to be that the Hampton Roads (VA) area is back up, at least for me.
I
|
| Vonage I think having a backup line for emergencies (different mode - maybe land) is a
|
| Vonage thanks again, updates are appreciated - after you get done solving the mess, let
|
| Vonage I'm in Minnesota and no outage all day....works fine
|
| Vonage Updated on Mar 4th 3:55 pm:
Status: Monitoring
Bandwidth has stabalized
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| Vonage Back up here in South Florida.
-Nick
|
| Vonage Houston is back up for now,, at least for me.
|
| Vonage I am getting the annoying dial tone that comes on when you have voice mails but I
|
| Vonage Well phone service seems to be back up here in NH. Can dilaaout longdistance and
|
| Vonage Its really bad right now, posting from my desk.
I cant even log into accounts
|
| Vonage Do you know if the outage was inside Vonage's network, an issue with a 3rd party
|
| Vonage This is my only phone. I was going to recommend this service to anyone I know who
|
| Vonage Service restored in New York City about 10 minutes ago
|
| Vonage Yeah... you mean like "HELP" "call 911" "oh wait, I can't call anyone"
very
|
| Vonage couldn't you just get some wireless phone connectors and distribute the phone
|
| Vonage "That means Vonage owes me 5 cents for the time I've lost"
Really? Are you aware
|
| Vonage hope so, thanks for the update!
|
| Vonage Hey Martlet, do you work for Vonage?
I think this is a pretty serious issue.
|
| Vonage Cancellations: (800) 860 - 5491
Dont know the exact reason for the crash,
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| Vonage See you later! Half the people in here must be ADHD due to lack of patience and attention
|
| Vonage seriously, I know this is new technology, but there are some people using vonage
|
| Vonage atlanta back up
|
| Vonage I may have spoken too soon, random operation of service, try restarting your modem/vonage
|
| Vonage Yeah, something is going on... Today the service is up and down up and down... Plus
|
| Vonage Functional and operating in Daytona Beach, FL
|
| Vonage There are many other voip providers that you can look at if you are unhappy with
|
| Vonage a dialtone doesn't necessarily mean the service is operational...
|
| Vonage I just had a friend called me on my cell and say the phone keeps saying my line is disconnected..
|
| Vonage 3:37pm, and i've had a steady dialtone for the past couple of minutes. seems to
|
| Vonage Looks like it's something that they can fix relatively simply...it's just time
|
| Vonage well its common practice for webhosts to refund for monthly service when uptime
|
| Vonage my motorola rebooted again, but I can make calls. vonage website back up after
|
| Vonage "wife not happy"
psst... cell phone
|
| Vonage We are up and then down here in DFW, TX
From their website
Service
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| Vonage Vonage's issue is the conversion of the digital signal to analog.
It's getting
|
| Vonage Of course, comments like this don't help:
emphasis mine
On another
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| Vonage If you pay me to provide a service to you, and I don't come through, are you just going
|
| Vonage Credited what? A dime for the 2 hours you were down?
|
| Vonage Seriously... someones' got some splaining' to do. What's the story vonage? will
|
| Vonage vonage.com still down for me. Wife not happy for sure! Couldn't call home, so I
|
| Vonage My POTS line just finished transferring at the end of yesterday (3/3). Now this.
|
| Vonage Those still down may want to try a reboot.
|
| Vonage My browser is now saying vonage.com doesn't exist! HA
|
| Vonage Also out in upstate SC. Second day in a row too, about this same time yesterday.
|
| Vonage I received a few errors, but I assumed it was because you were getting slammed.
|
| Vonage CT still down. However now consistently forwarding to my network availability
|
| Vonage This would be a record:
www.vonage-forum.com
Page Generation: 4.531
|
| Vonage Maryland still down. Tried to call my Vonage line - after four rings got a busy signal.
|
| Vonage crap! how am I supposed to get on dial up now???
|
| Vonage pretty frustrating. pretty pissed. what can I tell my wife? Storms anywhere?
|
| Vonage Vonage site seems to be working when I try... and phone service seems to be working
|
| Vonage 10 minutes ago it was down.. now its up.. in Indiana..
We'll see how long that
|
| Vonage Short of having a contract which specifically spells out availability you are
|
| Vonage I just made 2 calls from oregon with a CA area code... vonage.com is not working
|
| Vonage I'm down in Chicago, 2:18 pm local.can't get main web site either. javascript:emoticon(':cry:')
|
| Vonage vonage.com seems to be up and running now
|
| Vonage yeah, you have to watch the cities you get numbers form too, not just the area code..
|
| Vonage Hmm well I'm in Houston too and it's not working for me...
|
| Vonage They're accountable to their clients. If you aren't happy with their service,
|
| Vonage up in San Francisco, at least for the moment...
|
| Vonage Comcast working just fine ..... My Vonage customers are getting a bit nasty on
|
| Vonage nope still workin'...made two cold calls!
|
| Vonage Spoke too soon butch...
|
| Vonage Well looks like I posted my inquiry at the wrong time. Just being on this forum has
|
| Vonage Back up in Houston! 1 hour and 25 minutes late!!! AAHHHHHH!
|
| Vonage That quote saying up in a month was four months ago. Vonage has also been quoted
|
| Vonage My service is now restored in Chicago
|
| Vonage Actually, I should have just posted this link. You can see all my test results here:
http://www.
|
| Vonage my internet light on my LinkSys RT31P2 won't stop blinking, i'm placing and receiving
|
| Vonage HA! Came up long enough to get one fax out. Confirmed receipt. Now I just need 2 more
|
| Vonage down here in London Ontario too... :(
I was able to log in to vonage.ca tho..
|
| Vonage Under the features page (if you can log into the website), there is an option to
|
| Vonage motorola VT1000v keeps rebooting itself, gets stuck on "registering with our
|
| Vonage Set up your Network Avail Number. That way when the system goes down, that # will
|
| Vonage Folks, if Vonage were actually a LEC, this outage would result in HUGE FCC penalties.
As-is,
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| Vonage In Maryland and no service...can't even ping www.vonage.com
|
| Vonage 3:07pm, NYC still out. hopefully my forward number is working-sounds like some
|
| Vonage Ok, so instead of telling us something we already know, how about:
Why is the
|
| Vonage sandman3333,
how do you forward your calls? I can't get into vonage to do so.
|
| Vonage At least the forwarding is working, called vonage number from my POTS and the cell
|
| Vonage Down in CT. Only about 30% of test calls getting through to alternate number.
|
| Vonage Can you possibly elaborate on the problem? Or try to give us an idea when we might
|
| Vonage yeah. it won't be tech support I'll be calling. What's the cancellation number?
|
| Vonage They're accountable to their clients. If you aren't happy with their service,
|
| Vonage They're accountable to their clients. If you aren't happy with their service,
|
| Vonage there are a few posts on this page about 911.. actually if you look 1 post down, there
|
| Vonage I am sure not for long.....
|
| Vonage I have to admit, their cust service is bad...but, eh, it's new technology and for
|
| Vonage in Houston...This is driving me nuts! Anything that we can do? W/O going bald from
|
| Vonage This is what happens when you expand too fast....
|
| Vonage Just a heads up that JDR30 (one of the Vonage reps) has just posted an update here:
|
| Vonage Yesterday there was some problem too, around noon-ish.
Today, completely
|
| Vonage Hasn't come back up yet here in Fort Myers, FL. The light just comes on once in a while
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| Vonage Figures. This is the day I decide to work from home and have 3 faxes that were due
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| Vonage No, what they need to do is let you put yourself in the queue online and call you when
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| Vonage I'm also in NH and I just did a reboot. No dice. Still fast busy.
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| Vonage regulating them prob isnt the answer now, BUT making sure everyone who does have
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| Vonage What are you all talking about. Your communicating with this forum, aren't you.
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| Vonage Still down in South Florida... not like this is news...
I run my own hosting
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| Vonage Good news!: I was on hold for 15 minutes before they picked up
Bad news...:
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| Vonage Up, down, on and off in NH.
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| Vonage It's time for Vonage to provide a list of their computer system hardware, hardware
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| Vonage Vonage is the worst service I have EVER been with. They are great with selling the
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| Vonage vonage website is sorta-kinda-but-not-really back up.
I think they are
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| Vonage Still down in Oxnard, CA. (805)
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| Vonage NY State. phone light on, phone light off, phone light on, phone light off..
wheee
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| Vonage I run Vonage out of New Hampshire and service appears to be restored here (Time:
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| Vonage here, iam using infinitum 256, speedstream 5200 router, and was working yesterday..
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| Vonage I think you are going to get flamed big time. :wink:
No, seriously, the only
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| Vonage Where I live here in TX there is no local calling within different or the same AC...like
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| Vonage Had to reset Motorola VT1000
Up for now in Seattle 11:49 PST :P :-D
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| Vonage Right now just to let you know, the entier network is down:
-All inbound/outbound
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| Vonage incoming calls are working for me but outgoing are not.
They are not. Voicmail
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| Vonage What is the difference between that and 877778#?
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| Vonage oh I forgot to mention, it's down in Atlanta
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| Vonage Then I will stick with my Cable RR...thanks for the info. Direct TV guy was trying
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| Vonage this was a long 1/2 hour or so. thank goodness its over... for now.
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| Vonage I tried to get in there and forward calls to my cell phone, about every other calls
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| Vonage from the link you cited:
It does not appear Vonage did anything on purpose.
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| Vonage OTS here and just used it 3 hours ago. Thought I would come on see if anybody esle
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| Vonage While I understand your frustrations, you invested in new technology and expected
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| Vonage I have been reviewing all of the posts for about 2 days to try and figure out why I
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| Vonage This sort of makes me think about their commercials of "why people do stupid things"
and
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| Vonage down in upstate NY for the last hour or so... fast busy is all that we can get... this
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| Vonage jdr -
have sent a separate email - will wait till I hear from you if you think
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| Vonage This is unacceptable, period.
Vonage cannot seriously market their service
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| Vonage Here in Mexico ... down too... i´ve to come back to regular lines
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| Vonage arr, frustrating!
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| Vonage IL back up. Champaign area....
OOPS, spoke too soon, back down again....
sigh...
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| Vonage Hopefully it comes up soon in NY. I have the phone light on but still can't make outgoing
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| Vonage CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE ON MY VONAGE PHONE AND GOT THROUGH IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES!!!!!!!!
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| Vonage (267) (Phila, PA) is back too :o
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| Vonage Folks, if Vonage were actually a LEC, this outage would result in HUGE FCC penalties.
As-is,
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| Vonage Back up in Portland, Oregon.
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| Vonage Seattle in the Pacific Northwest is down as of 11:36 PST
:evil: :cry: :twisted:
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| Vonage Back in Phila, PA (484)
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| Vonage Still down for me in Houston. Dashboard says engineers are aware of inbound/outbound
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| Vonage Vonage's decision to block the ports is as harmful to the development of Internet
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| Vonage Up now in Lorton, VA
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| Vonage Someone tried to do a firmware update on their network during the day, and failed.
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| Vonage Down in Charlottesville, VA as well. Anyone getting calls forwarded to their
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| Vonage After someone logs out of the dashboard, can you please post that addy so that we
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| Vonage While I hate the fact that my phone service is hosed at the moment... It is somehow
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| Vonage Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing
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| Vonage Tried calling my Vonage number from my POTS line; after a long period of dead air
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| Vonage I actually registered just so that I could post a reply for you. I live in Cabo San
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| Vonage Just got dial tone outbound. Calling in forward to the Network Availability Number,
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| Vonage Just go into Dashboard and it's listing "no service outages". yea, sure...Sorry
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| Vonage If you can login! :)
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| Vonage First of all you MUST have access to the telephone interconnection box. It may
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| Vonage Just go T into Dashboard and it's listing "no service outages". yea, sure...
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| Vonage I am 50 miles north of Manila, Philippines.
I have been having this problem
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| Vonage How many times has this happened in the past?
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| Vonage Ditto for us just north of Tampa, FL. All 3 of our lines are down, and their website
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| Vonage I can't traceroute out past my ISP, their upstream has ICMP blocked. However,
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| Vonage Well, we are here to provide an avenue for discussion.
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| Vonage I'm in KC MO all 3 of my lines are down...and interestingly enough i can't get to
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| Vonage Does anyone know why happend with yesterdays outage?
Maybe that can shed some
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| Vonage I understand, my overall issue is that I want a 503 number vs the 971 area code number.
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| Vonage I should also add, thank you Dan for this site otherwise no one would know what was
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| Vonage Here in NH the same. Fast busy signal.
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| Vonage It looks like Vonage has prepared well for this incident:
Domain Name: VONAGESUCKS.COM
Registran
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| Vonage Still down
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| Vonage down here in IL too, fasy busy when you try to dial out.
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| Vonage No service here in Los Angeles. I tried logging into Vonage.com, and got HUGE delays
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| Vonage Myeung, the countries supply of telephone numbers is exhausted. It is an extremely
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| Vonage Dead here in Central NJ. RT31P2 Status shows "Can't connect to login server".
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| Vonage You would imagine they would their support number not on their phone system so
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| Vonage I can think of a number of reasons.
- Antenna out of alignment, causing your
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| Vonage How about this:
Call your Vonage number. Get busy signal. Hang up.
A second
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| Vonage I've only been w/Vonage for about a month and yes it seems to be down again. Very
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| Vonage It's up here now (PA). Just curious if maybe it was network upgrades for the 911
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| Vonage So we know its a carrier capacity to vonage problem. Is it something that can be
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| Vonage Same here
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| Vonage Having the same problem here in NY! Yesterday is was down around the same time.
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| Vonage That is what it looks like. I have three lines, all down. My customers are down,
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| Vonage what the hell?!?! second time in two days?! everyone I helped get signed on to vonage
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| Vonage Anyone know the scoop?
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| Vonage Does anyone have any ideas on how to wire an apartment? I don't really have access
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| Vonage Sandman333.... man, you have some really nasty test results there. No wonder
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| Vonage My ISP is http://www.tswireless.net. 802.11b wireless broadband. There is
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| Vonage I feel a bit stupid asking the question but I'm simply not sure if we have 911 service
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| Vonage I was in Israel in the summer and my service worked well.
I was using Netvision
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| Vonage Right now on that XO sheet there are about 6,000 orders processing, and about 4,000
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| Vonage Hey jdr30 are you able to help out in my LNP status? Being waiting since Jan 04.
Thanks
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| Vonage Don't count your chickens before they hatch, but good luck. Hopefully they do
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| Vonage Well, I could change your proxy server so it tries to register on another port ...
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| Vonage its very possible that Israel is blocking the port. if they are blocking the port
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| Vonage There are a lot of new reps coming onto the floor every day. The problem is a lot of
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| Vonage Just got a response today:
-
I sincerely apologize for any delays regarding
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| Vonage I don't mind waiting so much as I can put the phone on speaker phone and just watch
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| Vonage I am in Israel.
How wouls I know if port 5061 is blocked and how would I resolve
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| Vonage I to am in IL connected on Insight with 4M service. I have had no real issues at all
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| Vonage So I get through to them again (after waiting forever and ever) and when I ask the
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| Vonage yeah they should do that ... they dont because do you really want to hear you are
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| Vonage Also in Rochester, with Frontier.
LOA sent to carrier Feb 1.
Interestingly,
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| Vonage it's an incomplete port .. pm me or email me your act info (acct# and phone $) at jdrvonage@gmail.co
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| Vonage 4 blinks on a motorola MTA means the device is getting an IP address, it is taking
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| Vonage Have you considered placing the RT31P2 directly between the cable modem and the
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| Vonage zveek, where overseas are you? could it be that they are blocking vonage?
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| Vonage I hear alot of "sorry" from VONAGE. But after many of these, you can't expect people
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| Vonage It would seem that no tech support actually exists... Correction, im wrong. The
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| Vonage Hmmm... I have a slightly similar problem. My setup is cable modem->RT31P2->Switch.
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| Vonage mrkleen,
You're right, the technical element of providing 911 service is
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| Vonage Wow, you people like the music on the Vonage commercial? :eek: I have to be honest...
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| Vonage The difference being that Madison River is a regulated, and Vonage is not.
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| Vonage Personally, the fact that E911 is being tested in one state, tells me that Vonage
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| Vonage Everyone has had issues with companies before and Vonage is not any different.
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| Vonage I signed up for Vonage after researching the features that you had to offer. In
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| Vonage Hello Everyone,
I like Vonage when it works and hate it when it does not.
Horror
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| Vonage UGH.... My testyourvoip results from today, no wonder why I can't use the phone.....
So
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| Vonage you can call to other area codes from a Landline phone for free in some areas.. like
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| Vonage No, the city is divided up due to lack of available numbers. The calls between the
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| Vonage I'm trying to put my phone adapter in a convenient location which is a long way from
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| Vonage there's a bunch of posts about that, they have problems in the US too..
I got
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| Vonage Oh I'd hardly call rebus the choir...we're not singing the same tune.
I don't
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| Vonage It might be better for you to talk to the people who actually have control over the
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| Vonage jdr-
They changed my packet rate and it didn't do a thing. In fact, when I changed
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| Vonage Im pretty sure I know what the problem is and can fix it, however if you want to cancel
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| Vonage Lots of problems like this with the PAP2. Pick up the phone and dial **** you will
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| Vonage Which, as I've already stated, is precisely what I did. But you keep shifting your
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| Vonage My guess is something changed at your ISP or their upstream, and you no longer have
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| Vonage Yup, and if you go to the billing like and click on "View Cal Details" you can sort
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| Vonage Its a problem with the upload speed of your internet connection. You should put
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| Vonage Anyone have any ideas?
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| Vonage Its not going to work at all. The speeds are nice, too much latency. You will talk,
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| Vonage E-mailed Vonage 2 minutes ago and received this:
Thank you very much for your
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| Vonage We should also call:
Duane MacDonald Duane.MacDonald@vonage.com
Vonage
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| Vonage Just got off the phone again with my ISP, still no problems there. Does anyone have
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| Vonage New Vonage customer. Seem to have period where my transmission (voice) cuts our
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| Vonage Vonage must have great big stones to go in and force a regulated carrier to open
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| Vonage I see what you are saying, but right in the Terms of service, it states that it may
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| Vonage It looks like you get 150 messages, both saved and new.
http://vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_art
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| Vonage Whenever I try calling certain 800 (877, 866) numbers with Vonage I receive a fast
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| Vonage Remember, that problem is in your area. Not in mine & not in many if not most
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| Vonage I agree with the comment about Vonage not being ready for prime time yet. They can't
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| Vonage If there is 4 different area codes then it would still be a LD call for whoever calls
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| Vonage Nope, still garbage. My speed test results are all over the place, between 1 and
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| Vonage Good for you, And what is this commitment you keep refering to? If I felt so strongly
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| Vonage jdr30 -
no dial tone for last 3 days, otherwise been working fine for 2 months.
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| Vonage I signed up for the Vonage Canada service in November 2003 and just received a bill
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| Vonage I have had Vonage for about a week and haven't made or received many calls yet because
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| Vonage Well, that didn't fix it either. Perfect calls last night, today lots of chop.
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| Vonage However I had no packet loss near my connection. It was all WAY down stream on the
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| Vonage I have had cable internet access for a long time and have gone through at least 4
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| Vonage No, the TOS does not give them liberty to intentionally mis-route calls, but it
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| Vonage it was very, very simple and I am so glad I went this route. I tried all the codes and
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| Vonage I've been having the same exact problem, but never thought it would be related
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| Vonage I've done some checking and I think I've found the problem.
I decided to try
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| Vonage If the area code is long distance to them, then the caller would be charged as a long
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| Vonage DTV and Tivo installed earlier this week - just getting used to the menus and the
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| Vonage Well those posts are good to read. I suppose I will wait for the one from amazon and
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| Vonage Go to bed. :)
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| Vonage Man thanks, I was going nuts!! :lol: I've heard before, but could'nt place it :lol:
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| http_www_vonage_forum_com_ftopic2215_html_Enjoy-post-20237.html
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| Vonage Hi :eek:
can anyone tell me the name, of the anoing vonage commercial song
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| Vonage There sure is. Are you currently a Vonage customer?
If so, just login to DashBoard
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| Vonage Is there a way to track international, domestic long distance, toll free numbers?
Thanks
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| Vonage Probably another problem, if this is a Motorola MTA just unplug it and plug it back
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| Vonage Answered my own question. Killed the port forwarding and no more broadcast storm
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| Vonage If you have Comcast ISP, try their Tech Support via Chat. I think they finally fixed
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| Vonage I have had garbled audio (at 40 sec intervals - approx.) since I've had Vonage.
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| Vonage I got mine from Best Buy a couple of weeks ago. The sound quality rocks compared
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| Vonage I was checking the special link for the equipment and service and thinking about
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| Vonage ok ive read a few of these threads now and it seems like no go with a modem? any new
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| Vonage wow the FCC finally gets something right!
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| Vonage lol - its funny when ppl completely ignore the question.
my question again
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| Vonage From what I understand, phone companies do not maintain the "caller ID databases".
Again,
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| Vonage I've noticed that connections to the IMAP server I use become flakey when I'm using
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| Vonage Well, Vonage must be doing something with Caller ID, because if I call my cell phone
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| Vonage I've had no problems sending or receiving faxes.
Here's the basic idea of
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| Vonage This has been discussed in a multitude of threads.
Outbound caller ID will
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| Vonage I'm going to clear this up for you and anyone else reading!
THERE IS NO 56K MODEM
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| Vonage But in my case, inbound is a problem too. They have the right number for the POTS
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| Vonage Inbound caller id is fine, outbound is the issue here.
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| Vonage your explanation shows frustration which I'm sure we can all understand however
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| Vonage Well, I don't get a whole lot ot calls on my vonage line, but the FEW I've had have
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| Vonage I don't see where this would be a problem to implement. They already have all the
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| Vonage Sorry, let me clarify. I have comcast as my ISP. SBC offers their customers a service
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| Vonage If you haven't ficed this issue, make sure your ISP will allow port 80 traffic.
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| Vonage yeah, my problem returned with a vengence today. I called CS, and they adjusted
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| Vonage I don't use SBC as my ISP, so that can't be it.
What about people in other parts
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| Vonage I have the same thing. Illinois Call with my number. I think there was another thread
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| Vonage I'm a recently new customer of Vonage, and I've been having trouble my network
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| Vonage What's funny is I have been going back and forth (with no success - horrible tech
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| Vonage Many of us who were having this problem are in the Dallas area and it appears to have
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| Vonage I've been having the same issues the past 2 month (after 2 years of ok service).
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| Vonage I am just outside of Albany NY. I didn't have this problem for the first month of
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