I picked one of these up at Costco a week ago. The idea is interesting, but not sure if it will work for me.

I have my business in my house, and currently use a Cable provided main phone and additional fax number. Surprisingly, I get little use out of the fax number these days, but have had the number out there so long, that I'm sure I'd lose out if I changed or canceled it.

For some reason, Cox has a much cheaper price if you only have one phone in the bundle compared to two. So this one fax line adds $30 a month to my bill. I'd like to use Ooma to connect to my fax machine. I wouldn't mind being able to use the free domestic minutes, but if I called someone and the caller ID listed the fax number, they might call me back on it, instead of my normal business number. Can I have a different number listed for CID purposes?

If my high speed (25 meg) internet service was perfect, I'd use it for my main number. However, it always seems that I'm down for an hour, or two ever month, and then there is a day long outage every year or two. If it's on the weekend, I wouldn't care much, but during the week it would cost me big.

And if the whole service shut down, then I'd be SOL.