azomee-
I own a computer business. I set up computers, networks, repair of laptops, desktops, etc. I have a client list of about 60 private customers and 12 businesses. I also work on website design. Keeps me hopping about 10 to 16 hours a day. When I first got SR I started sharing my experience with my clients. Almost everyone is a VOIP candidate, whether they barely make calls or a lot. Either the phone just sits there unused with the cell getting almost all calls - why spend $40 for that? Or, phone is used a ton by the family with many minutes used, including internationally, why spend $100 a month for that? When one of my clients signs up for SR they usually ask me to install it for them, so I encounter many hardware setups at the site, differing modems and routers, different network setups. I have to be on top of all potential issues to go there and not make a fool out of myself. For instance, faxing works well with SR most of the time, but sometimes it does not work well right off the bat, so I have to go inside the gizmo settings to make the appropriate changes, and, presto. I learned most of what I know from reading on sites like this one and by communicating via email and PMs with some of the other SR tweakers.
tomtrike-
Looks like a good one. I am glad it is a 2-port adapter again. SR is said to be opening up port 2 "for business" soon, meaning that instead of using just port 1 of the gizmo (with port 2 dead) you'll be able to plug a phone (or phone system) into port 2 and use it that way as a completely separate line. Supposedly there is no extra charge for basically getting a second "true" line (using the number that comes with your signature number as a stand-alone line.) If this adapter had only one phone port I would have feared that SR abandoned that idea.
Ridefree-
"Tom,
I'm with GTFan on this one.
Sometimes you get what you pay for."
Hey, not always. I am waiting for some "other" shoes to drop but this solid, feature-rich SR thing is either way underpriced at under $14 per month or all the other ones are grossly overpriced for less features and more fees. I happen to believe in the latter, so I am confident prices will go down even further. IMO this is the way VOIP should be - the opposite of big-telco politics as far as adding fees and taxes, charging for every change, every feature-add. I've been saving more than $80 per month (used to pay an average of $100 per month to Verizon) and am getting much more than I did with those jokesters.