17th August 2005, 9:34 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote: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...My router can automaticly forward calls to voice mail or another number in a network outage ;)