Best VOIP Anybody with real experience? Suggestions?

[HBARleatherneck]

We have had Voip for more than 9 years. The price is risen to the point where I am looking for options. Right now its through my internet provider at a cost of $19.99 a month. Alot I know.
My Father has Magic jack. It seems many conversations I have with him his phone has problems. It maybe his actual phone since his phone is at least 15 years old.

This is our only phone here at the house. Our current one has voicemail, caller id, and a bunch of stuff we dont use.

I look online at suggestions but, you guys have always come through with good answers.

Recap
We need a new Voip service, box whatever.

[th3w01f]

I've been going through the same. I had VoIP from Rise broadband but it wasn't very good and we swapped providers anyway. I tried AXVoice and it was terrible. I've spent 15 years working on business VoIP so I know how to troubleshoot issues and their tech support would either not respond to issues or come back with something like 'you need to reboot your router'.

I switched to Ooma about 2 months ago and I have not had 1 issue since, everything has worked perfectly and with the basic service you only pay taxes. Since then 3 others on my team (different parts of the US) have also switched to Ooma with similar results.

I also purchased a 2 to 1 dongle off Amazon that lets me plug in 2 phones and it works great. One going to the cordless that has handsets around the house and the other going to my office phone with a headset.

[Madeinhb]

I second Ooma. Have had it for a year. The unit you can get on sale. All I pay is taxes which works out to $3 and some change a month. I've not had any issues with it. I can't speak to the premium service. I have the app to check voice mails and can make calls (I believe- never have). And I believe the premium allows you to receive calls via mobile.

[StagLefty]

MagicJack $36 a year. The only time I have problems is if Comcast is having problems.
It enables my phone to do all the extras with no extra cost caller id,call waiting,etc

[brutal]

I'm strongly considering Ooma as several coworkers have it and love it.

I'm stupidly clutching my landline even though it's been ported to comcast. The monthly fee is just too high.

My setup is a little more complex with an enterprise class firewall (hand-me-down Watchguard Firebox X1000) sitting here between my home network and the cable modem that connects me to the big bad internet. However, I have a simple any-any outbound rule and only NAT incoming FTP through a proxy service on the Firebox to one static IP assigned to a VM I use when I need to move files through that method.

[Ah Pook]

Picked up Ooma about 5-6 years ago. $5.00(ish) a month in taxes/fees. The box is a one time fee. No issues! A one line business line, from Qwerst, was $65.00 a month.

No problems and no dropped calls.

[cableguy11]

I also have Ooma and comcast internet service. I have the premium service and no issues in the 1.5 years we have had it. Got the box on sale as well.

[crays]

Thanks to all. I have been leaning towards Ooma for a while. This thread pretty much seals the deal.

Good luck to HBAR in resolving your issue.

[O2HeN2]

Thinking of kicking our CenturyLink landline to the curb and going VoIP.

We want to use our existing phone base station and satellite handsets, so looking for a box to plug into.

The VoIP box will be hard wired into a pfSense router. Our service is currently 100/6 - if any of that is important.

Any current suggestions? Ooma keeps cropping in my searches. It appears the only real complaint is heaven help you if you want to cancel.

O2

[StagLefty]

I'm still running Magic Jack for several years now and no problems unless Comcast is having problems. Runs about $40 a year with taxes. I recently upgraded my landline phones and it runs even better.