[ale] Cable modem recommendation

[Michael Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> I have a friend using a Oomla http://www.ooma.com/products . Saw a sale
> last
> week for $140 on that - lifetime calling, but I think they must charge
> monthly
> for E911 by law.  This same friend tried the MagicJack on a PC for no
> other use
> and said it worked well enough, but he always felt slimy.
>
>

A colleague of mine uses Ooma and raves about it.

I use Skype dial-out (I can dial regular #'s with it), and it works well
enough for me.   I'm on business in Belgium right now, and I use it to call
my home phone in Atlanta on the anemic hotel wifi, and it works very well
with voice.  It also works moderately well with video on a Skype-Skype call
to home also.

I don't have a Jihad against Microsoft, so I'll continue to use Skype until
a better valued option comes up, or it starts to suck.  So far neither have
happened.

I haven't tried Google Voice from my computer to regular # yet, but I might
try that in the next couple days.
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