Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102)

Guessing this is a technological question if it would work...

Not certain w/o looking @ the unit... But if it remembers the settings like a router can to initiate DSL... Perhaps-

Of course if they had a wireless unit... That would solve the issue (:p)

But how would wifi impact latency? (That's my biggest question)

I just finished testing it, and it works like a charm.

My internet setup is a little "different." Because the cable company wouldn't come to the house, but would come to a building 600 feet away, I have the cable modem there with the following setup:

Building One: Modem --> Router --> WAP --> Directional antenna

House: 2nd WAP in bridge mode --> various laptops and print servers.

For the heck of it, I plugged the Ooma hub into the ethernet port on the 2nd WAP. It connected and was working beautifully within 30 seconds.

Then I read the directions :D

The perfect order :p

Glad its working for you!

Ooma reliability? Fax?
 

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.

It sounds like you have plenty of bandwidth, but you should know that VoIP is not a great solution for faxing in situations where there are any flaws in the broadband connection. VoIP's little blips and burps that are slightly bothersome in a voice connection can wreak havoc on a fax connection. I used to do tech support for a VoIP company and this issue came up a lot.

Have you considered getting a fax machine that supports distinctive ringing and just let your fax line share your voice line from its own number? I have distinctive ring service from AT&T for my fax line for a couple of bucks a month (less that $5, I forget the exact amount).

I found out in my own pre-purchase research that Ooma has a section of its website devoted to support for faxing. Fax call dialing needs to include a special prefix. The prefix tells the device to select a special high-bandwidth codec which is better for faxing, since it doesn't compress the audio on the calls.

http://www.ooma.com/fax

Verizon customers?
 

Have the folks out there who are Verizon customers had any problems unhooking their DSL service from their phone bills in order to ditch the phone service?

Costco is still selling the Ooma... which is not necessarily a bad thing. Any updates on experiences?

Without exaggerating - Ooma is the best home phone product I have ever used. And I was in the first couple of 100's users on Vonage. I've been on Sunrocket, Magicjack and many others - but Ooma is just fantastic.

I would completely agree. ScottC put me on to it, and it's been flawless.

We've had our Ooma for a year. No problems at all. We have had two friends buy them also.

We have Verizon FIOS, and they sort of don't like you having internet but no phone service. They won't bill you direct anymore, only through your credit card. But then again, that might earn more miles. ;) I haven't noticed any change in our bandwidth.

I didn't go with magic jack because the Ooma works in two rooms with a main unit and remote, and also works just like an answering machine. We love having free caller ID now also, as we never wanted to pay for it before. We paid the extra $40? to keep our old number.

I am somewhat concerned about the business model also, but after a year, it's now paid for itself.

Ooma is great, okay I said it. but, it isn't perfect. I have had a couple outages in the past two years and I would say in the past few MONTHS I am getting a BIT more choppy voice sound every once in a while. Also, I have had a couple of disconnects. Granted, in the grand scheme of usage this is about .05% or less. It was WAY worse in the early days and I didn't like the fact it was using onese landline (if one had one) but this is of course over.

I also don't like the new DECT phones, too much EF noise in the house, but I use my own cordelss 5.8ghz phoens.

If you can get an older model, that is the deal, I paid 135$ for my second unit, with of course lifetime, no fee unlimited services.

There are several of the older ones on eBay for not very much money; same with CL nationwide.

FYI
 

just an fYI, I think one has to activate for the FIRST TIME one of the older units to have no fees ever. Otherwise, there might be the 12$ a year annual fee (which is some sort of tax) AND possible some charge for voicemail.

OOma changed their business model starting in October 2009, which some grandfathering occuring to 1/1/2010 and some legacy granting for "older units" and legacy customers.

I have been looking to pick up an Ooma and noticed different models.

The Teleo is the one with yearly fees (per ScottC in another thread).

For the unit without fees, do I get the Ooma Hub, the Ooma Core or some combination thereof?

Just want to make sure I purchase the right product.