Re: VOIP

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At $26/month, why convince her? Valentine's Day is in a month or so  - 
surprise her.  Give her own phone number, with her mom's area code and 
exchange.  :)

Jeff Crosby wrote:
> > I've not tried this (I have one cordless base and 4 cordless 
> > recievers dispersed throughout the house), but I've been told 
> > that, once you've shut off your land line service, all you 
> > have to do is plug the router into any wall phone jack and all 
> > the jacks in the house are alive off the router.
>
> This would be way cool.  And it seems logical.
>
> I spent about 30 minutes late last night on Vonage web site.  I checked, and
> it said my home phone number was _not_ available for transfer.  I wonder is
> that's an error, that it's saying that because I have it?  I suppose I'll
> have to talk to them and ask.
>
> Other than that, I really couldn't come up with a reason not to try it.
> Just have to convince my wife . . .