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The truth is that SR is working well for almost all. Big outage issues are well in the past. Whatever issues you see now are issues I see occasionally for some Packet 8 users here and there in other places (i.e. Caller ID quirkyness, voicemail setup issues, etc.)
I used to have Packet 8 and dumped them because call quality was not very good and many features are simply missing.
P8s voice codec is the inferior g729 whereas Sunrocket, Vonage and ATT CallAdvantage use the better g711u codec. Feature-wise you can pretty much take most of the features listed in my Vonage comparison above, take away the Call Blocking features (which P8 has) and add the lack of 7-digit dialing (which P8 does not have.) It is a decent service P8 provides, and uptime sure has been a strong point, but there are shortcomings that you would probably see if you tried SR.
BTW, why not give SR a try? The phones are yours to use and keep, no matter what you decide. You could sign up for the $199 deal but if it doesn't work for you just cancel before the 31 day trial period is up. The phones are yours to keep and you don't pay a single dime to SR, even for an entire month's worth of phone calls, domestic and international. You could also sign up for the $19.99 deal, again, with the 31-day free trial and 2 free phones. If you cancel that before the 31 day trial is over you get to keep the $65 phone system and, again, don't owe a dime. You may just end up liking it and keeping it, but if not the free phones are yours.
The truth is that SR is working well for almost all. Big outage issues are well in the past. Whatever issues you see now are issues I see occasionally for some Packet 8 users here and there in other places (i.e. Caller ID quirkyness, voicemail setup issues, etc.)
I used to have Packet 8 and dumped them because call quality was not very good and many features are simply missing.
P8s voice codec is the inferior g729 whereas Sunrocket, Vonage and ATT CallAdvantage use the better g711u codec. Feature-wise you can pretty much take most of the features listed in my Vonage comparison above, take away the Call Blocking features (which P8 has) and add the lack of 7-digit dialing (which P8 does not have.) It is a decent service P8 provides, and uptime sure has been a strong point, but there are shortcomings that you would probably see if you tried SR.
BTW, why not give SR a try? The phones are yours to use and keep, no matter what you decide. You could sign up for the $199 deal but if it doesn't work for you just cancel before the 31 day trial period is up. The phones are yours to keep and you don't pay a single dime to SR, even for an entire month's worth of phone calls, domestic and international. You could also sign up for the $19.99 deal, again, with the 31-day free trial and 2 free phones. If you cancel that before the 31 day trial is over you get to keep the $65 phone system and, again, don't owe a dime. You may just end up liking it and keeping it, but if not the free phones are yours.