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  • xd

    Aug. 24, 2009 5:43 p.m. xd New Reader

    Ok, never mind I was about 6 months ahead of myself thought it was out of beta and they took all my invites sorry. It is free

    Anyway when it comes out of beta 1. sign up for google voice. 2. Put your Google voice number in your top 5 or whatever you call for free. 3. First the incoming to your Google voice account will always be forwarded to the cell hence free. 4. Second dial out by calling your Google voice account and dialing out through there from your cell phone. Hence you are calling Google voice so that is free.

    On a side note for every call you make through Google voice you get credits for international calls. So those will also eventually be free depending on how much you use it.

    If this does not make sense I'll explain further. My brain is fried today.

  • DrBoost

    Aug. 24, 2009 7:19 p.m. DrBoost HalfDork

    I guess my brain is fried too since that makes perfect sense to me. Thanks all, i'm waiting for an invite (I did request one on the site).

  • curtis73

    Aug. 24, 2009 11:15 p.m. curtis73 HalfDork

    carguy123 wrote:

    I don't know what Curtis73 has been smoking or what company he was using (I'd guess Vonage) but I've been using Voice Pulse for business and home for over 4 years now.

    I have not used Vonage. I used Voice Pulse for a while and had multiple issues with it. Routers would lose IP addresses constantly, meaning you would try to transfer a call to another extension and it just hung up on the customer.

    We are using 8x8 now on a T1. Horrific would be a good description. Intranet is not affected, but every time you hang up an extension, it causes the modems to lose synch for a few minutes. Every single phone call knocks out internet when you hang up... which knocks out phone as well. Also (despite the crazy bandwidth possibilities with T1) three lines in operation starts getting garbled words on the phone like a CD skipping.

    We have had this for two weeks, and every single day we have been on the phone with tech support, had no fewer than 7 visits from techs trying to fix it. They actually flew a tech from Seattle to Austin to check it out. We're still using regular land lines.

    I have now had experience with about a dozen providers on everything from cable DSL up to T3, and it has been terrible in every instance.

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