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July 22, 2009

Land Line

I requested to have my old-school land-line reconnected today. I've been using my Vonage VOIP line over the internet for years, but there are a couple of problems with this:
1) traffic over my web server causes the line to drop out like every other word or so.
2) when I answer the VOIP phone, I always have to say "Hello" at least twice - not sure why this is
3) when the blizzard hit and we were without power for 3 days, the VOIP line was about as useless as tits on a bull. And, my understanding is that during the same people, people that had Qwest land-lines were not affected.

So, for these reasons, I ordered the basic service for $14.88 a month which will allow me to have a true land-line which I can use to accept incoming calls and dial out for local numbers. We'll see how it goes.

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Posted by Rob Kiser on July 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM

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