VOIP??

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).

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.