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Originally Posted by logdog
I had ViaTalk in New Mexico for 3 years. Had a lot of problems with it probably because I had a slow broadband speed. I went to Ooma when we moved here and have had no problems at all even with basic Comcast broadband. You have to buy an Ooma unit up front ($129 on Amazon) but then the service is less than $4 per month.
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Back when the old SunRocket voip provider went belly-up, many of the refugees descended on ViaTalk as an alternative and ViaTalk could not deal very well with the massive influx of new customers. Perhaps your experience was during that timeframe. Most, if not all of the issues were solved with infrastructure upgrades some years ago. Anyway, I also have an Ooma line. ViaTalk is for my home phone, Ooma for my business. Both are fine. My boss had MagicJack and it was always difficult to carry on a conversation with him when he was using a speakerphone. It was pretty much a half-duplex situation (I could only talk when he stopped and vice versa). As such I'd be leery of MagicJack.
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