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    Seriously need advice. Hot Spot or Vonage OR??

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by MTHall51, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. MTHall51

    MTHall51 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, I have a choice to make soon.
    Has anyone on this site in the last 6 months or so used any of the following services:
    1] T Mobile Hot Spot at Home using the D Link wireless router (Not to be confused with the newly launched At Home program.

    OR

    2] Vonage

    I had Vonage a couple years back with disasterous results. :confused: :confused:
     
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What sort of disasterous results?
     
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    It worked fine for about a month. Then many, many, many dropped calls + many calls where after the first couple minutes either I couldn't hear the other person, or the person I called couldn't hear me. After many rounds with tech support at both Comcast and Vonage, each insisted that it was a problem with the other one. Now, I don't know what to think. I have zero problems with my cable Internet ISP (Comcast). The problem is that I am on call quite a bit so I need something which is dependable. The At Home program from T Mobile with the Linksys Router simply would not work. Many hours of tech support from both Linksys and T Mobile ended with each one finally giving up on me. Two NEW out of the box Linksys routers were defective, and when I was on the third one I decided no more Linksys for me.

    So, now it is either the T Mobile D Link wireless router OR Vongage, OR back to Verizon, which I truly dread.
     
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