14th August 2005, 8:27 PM
I know someone with an internet based phone service. I hate internet based phone services. If their cable connection goes down, the phone connection goes down. Never has getting in contact with them been so unreliable. Picture just how unreliable EVERY router is, ALL THE TIME. Is there some setting in there that makes it just stop working outright after a few weeks requiring a physical reset, or what? At any rate, if you ever think there will be a time when you can't miss some important call, DO NOT switch to an internet based phone line. They are only as dependable as your internet connection, and from personal experience, "always on" doesn't literally mean that...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)