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Nokia

請問有人用VOIP Home Phone嗎?
我search 過lyk, 最近有關VOIP phone 嘅 topic 係3年前.

小弟用緊 shaw internet + home phone, 覺得越來越貴.

Thanks.

fm9610

I use a bluetooth gateway to put my cell phone into my home phone network. I can use my home phone(wireless or hardwired)  to dial out and in of my cell phone.  Pay one price and have my home phone with me all the time. Works for me!

Quest

I'm with Shaw on landline, which is essentially VoIP anyways.

It's been reliable (no drops, no nothing).

Q.

fibbi

回復 3# Quest


    Is there any issue with alarm? I don't want to switch to VOIP because I have alarm at home...

Quest

回復 4# fibbi

No issues, for I too, have alarm monitoring hooked up to it.

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pkphilip

I have cut the cords and my wife and I both have new carrier move, and we have our cell for personal and an VoIP office line for voice and the rare faxes.

I am using 2 DIY VoIP services from Freephoneline.ca (FPL for short) and voip.ms.

Hardware used is the Cisco SPA122 ($50 in NCIX) which has 2 RJ11 ports and built-in router with 2 LAN ports. It is hooked up to 2 cordless phones (line 1 and line 2)

Both services will give you a choice of local numbers, 778 is the only available area code. FPL being is free for life including 911 location service, but we paid a one time $50 to get the SIP config to setup with our Cisco SPA122. Voip.ms charge by the minutes in 6 sec billing increments and it has the config upon sign up. I am using the premier tier 1 service (calls route through tier 1 peers) and the cost is 1 cent a minute. LD calls is the about 1 cent to US and 2 cents to HK. 911 location service for VoIP.ms has a monthly $4 charge.

FPL is based in Ontario and their servers has about a ping time of 10-15ms on average. VoIP.ms has servers all over the world and the Vancouver servers gives about 8-9ms ping average. Voice quality is mostly excellent, but I think VoIP.ms has faster response time due to the closer servers.  VoIP.ms also supports SMS for 1 cent a message, and it could be useful for those who wants SMS services.

Both services does not guarantee fax to go through VoIP but my tests and experiments with the settings in SPA122 seems to work. YMMV.

Keep in mind that VoIP services is mostly DIY, if you don't have any technical knowledge to setup and troubleshoot when troubles, I advise you to go with a commercial provider that offer the HW support and service for a monthly fee.

Otherwise, with most of our needs, FPL does the trick at a one time $50 fee as a secondary phone. If quality is more important, I think VoIP.ms is a good service as it provides a whole lot more options to config the phone such as IVR, forwarding, group calling etc. For example, I forward all my calls to my US numbers with Voip.ms when I travel, that saves me a bunch of money than roaming.

I think VoIP system should work with alarm too as long as the termination is disconnected at the box outside of your house, then it will be just a closed loop.

Philip