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Understanding the Vonage service
This article describes in brief about the phone service of Vonage.
Vonage is a telephone company that provides phone service over Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It is required that you have a broadband Internet connection for Vonage, because it works through Internet unlike the services offered by traditional phone companies. So if your Internet is down, your phone will not work. If there is no electricity in your home due to an outage or something, you may not have the Vonage service.
With Vonage, you connect your telephone to a high-speed Internet connection using the phone adapter sent to you. Pick up the phone, and use it just like you do a regular phone. You can be up and running within minutes of receiving your Vonage phone adapter.
When you pick up the phone, the Vonage phone adapter converts your voice into data and sends it through Internet like an email. Vonage network sends the call where you want it and translates it back into voice. When the person you are calling picks up the phone, it sounds just the same as any other call. When someone calls you, he or she dials your number, your phone rings, and all you have to do is pick up and answer it.
The people you are calling need not have Vonage or an Internet connection on their side. They just need a phone. And your phone rings when someone calls you as it always did. You use your same touch-tone phone. You’re just connecting it to Vonage instead of your old phone company. Also, using Vonage doesn’t affect your computer usage. Continue to surf the web or send and receive email with no problem!
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- Posted by: imneverlast_9152 at 28 Feb 05:04 permalinkI see that your artical is pretty clear about how to use vonage with a regular phone and with the unit sent to you.
BUT - I have been looking for an Ideal phone before subcribing to Vonage and I see that V tech makes a phone for Vonage Usage.
The part That is unclear to me is - with the Vtech phone that is made for use with vonage ONLY it says. comes a router looking thing. in all the pictures I see on teh boxes there is No unit that is sent to me from vonage. just the Vtech Router hooked to the intenet and the hand sets then operate from the modem wich is owned by me since it came with the phones.
SO: what I am getting confused about is this. do I still need the Black box from vonage? and If I do not - do I get charged for it? Is there a discount if i do not require that box?
If The Box is not nessesary when I own a set of Vtechs made for Vonage then I think I would choose that.
If the Modem looking thing that comes with the phones hooks into the Black box from Vonage and I have to have BOTH of them cluttering up m desk, i think I'd rather just hook a regular phone to the black box and set my handsets in the house Like that.
so ? do you know ? LOL I hope my questions clear enough.
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V tech - Voip - Vonage Vtech Vonage IP 8100-1 Phones 5.8 GHz
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Haven't got this yet but i am Planning to as soon as i figure this out. My phone company is terrible. I wantt o do this ASAP.
