Verizon Home Phone Connect

[samhass]

Has anyone traveled with these modems? How do they perform? Do you have dropped calls? They claim to be 10x faster than Comcast. I am considering phone and internet to go .

[George Bieniaszek]

I have the Verizon Home Phone Connect for the past 8-9 months and love it. I bring my "home" phone number from Connecticut to Florida. Yes, all the places I call here, even my next door neighbor is long distance, but you get 1000 minutes free and that has never been an issue. My Doctors, friends from CT all have my "home" number so it makes no difference where I am. Service is excellent, strong signal and no dropped calls. No regrets and I save $25 per month as a bonus.

[Eve2278]

I have the Verizon Home Phone Connect for the past 8-9 months and love it. I bring my "home" phone number from Connecticut to Florida. Yes, all the places I call here, even my next door neighbor is long distance, but you get 1000 minutes free and that has never been an issue. My Doctors, friends from CT all have my "home" number so it makes no difference where I am. Service is excellent, strong signal and no dropped calls. No regrets and I save $25 per month as a bonus.

Is this for a landline or are you talking a cell phone.

We have verizon in virginia for our landline home phone and using our cell phones in Fla thats with AT&T. We don't have a landline in Fla.

Our Internet is with Comcast...no compaints there

[George Bieniaszek]

Hello Eve:
I replaces my landline with the Verizon Home Connect. You basically get a black box that you plug into your home for power and connect your landline home telephone to it. You use your home phone which is much easier and I think clearer reception than a cell. The added benefit is that when using your cell to call home, it is verizon to verizon, so those are free minutes.

[Eve2278]

Hello Eve:
I replaces my landline with the Verizon Home Connect. You basically get a black box that you plug into your home for power and connect your landline home telephone to it. You use your home phone which is much easier and I think clearer reception than a cell. The added benefit is that when using your cell to call home, it is verizon to verizon, so those are free minutes.

So I can contact Verizon in Virginia here for Home Contact and get a black box which I assume will be registered with my Virginia home landline number, then take the box to Fla, plug it in and I will receive calls from anyone who calls my Virginia home landline? Did I understand it correctly...If so, that would solve so many problems for now..

[George Bieniaszek]

Yes Eve! That's all there is to it. We changed landline phone carriers so it took approx. a day for out phone number to be switched over. When we leave our home in CT and come down to The Villages, we take the Verizon Home Connect box with us, plug it in here, plug our old landline phone into it and we have service instantly. Nice if family back home or Doctors need to get in touch with you, etc. etc. Good luck. Speak to the Verizon store you normally do business with and you should be all set. I told friends of ours that have an RV and do some lengthy camping. They can take their home phone with them in their RV. Same theory, plug the RV into a AC power source or generator and hook up your phone. As long as there is cell service, you have your home phone anywhere.

[RayinPenn]

I use my cell for everything so not sure what the benefit is. I haven't got the wife to kill the landline mainly because it's part of the Verizon bundle.

[Eve2278]

Yes Eve! That's all there is to it. We changed landline phone carriers so it took approx. a day for out phone number to be switched over. When we leave our home in CT and come down to The Villages, we take the Verizon Home Connect box with us, plug it in here, plug our old landline phone into it and we have service instantly. Nice if family back home or Doctors need to get in touch with you, etc. etc. Good luck. Speak to the Verizon store you normally do business with and you should be all set. I told friends of ours that have an RV and do some lengthy camping. They can take their home phone with them in their RV. Same theory, plug the RV into a AC power source or generator and hook up your phone. As long as there is cell service, you have your home phone anywhere.

Thats terrific. Will certainly follow up with Verizon. Thanks again so much for all the information..

[billethkid]

Any idea how the Home Connect would work with a security system that is dependent on the land line phone?
We do have Verizon cell phones so I will check My Verizon website to see what I can learn there.


btk

[billethkid]

After checking my Verizon I find home connect does not work with security systems. On My Verizon they have several forums and the one on Home Connect is very informative and an excellent source of input from many users to help determine if it is right for one or not.

So far the security system and not being able to fax are negatives (at the moment....need to determine work arounds like fax via PC, etc).

btk

[George Bieniaszek]

Hi Bill
I agree that the downside would be with the inability of connecting to a security system. I have a home in Connecticut and was looking at a system that monitors temprature and would start calling if the temps in the home fall below a set value signaling a heating problem. Taking the phone with me, well that was not an option. I found a device that you plug into an electrical outlet and plug a lamp into it. When the house temp drops to 40 degrees, the lamp lights up. I alerted my neighbors that if they see the light, call us. Nice thing is that it is a local call with Verizon Home Connect for them wherever I happen to be :)

[Eve2278]

After checking my Verizon I find home connect does not work with security systems. On My Verizon they have several forums and the one on Home Connect is very informative and an excellent source of input from many users to help determine if it is right for one or not.

So far the security system and not being able to fax are negatives (at the moment....need to determine work arounds like fax via PC, etc).

btk

HP has the new wireless printer that you download an APP and you can send and receive through your cell phone. I have only tried printing from my cell to the printer and it worked great. I would imagine there are other brands out there you could check with. So many people are getting away from landlines they had to come up with something..

[mrfixit]

Hi Bill

.............The OP was shortened to this....

I found a device that you plug into an electrical outlet and plug a lamp into it. When the house temp drops to 40 degrees, the lamp lights up. I alerted my neighbors that if they see the light, call us. Nice thing is that it is a local call with Verizon Home Connect for them wherever I happen to be :)

...Can't figure this thing out...

...SO ...IF the power goes out...and therefore the furnace can NOT ignite....
HOW does the lamp light up ?????

Am I MISSING something ?????

[Eve2278]

...Can't figure this thing out...

...SO ...IF the power goes out...and therefore the furnace can NOT ignite....
HOW does the lamp light up ?????

Am I MISSING something ?????

maybe some other reason the temp drops in the house besides a power failure...just furnace failure :confused:

[Barefoot]

Yes Eve! That's all there is to it. We changed landline phone carriers so it took approx. a day for out phone number to be switched over. When we leave our home in CT and come down to The Villages, we take the Verizon Home Connect box with us, plug it in here, plug our old landline phone into it and we have service instantly. Nice if family back home or Doctors need to get in touch with you, etc. etc. Good luck. Speak to the Verizon store you normally do business with and you should be all set. I told friends of ours that have an RV and do some lengthy camping. They can take their home phone with them in their RV. Same theory, plug the RV into a AC power source or generator and hook up your phone. As long as there is cell service, you have your home phone anywhere.

We have Vonage with unlimited long distance in North America. We have a Florida telephone number and a Canadian phone number. When we are in Florida, any calls made to our telephone in Canada ring through to Florida. And vice versa.

[kathy and al]

For $19.95 a YEAR, Magic Jack is still the best deal. Unlimited calls anywhere in North America and very crisp and clear calls. Have had it for 4 years now and wouldn't have any other service.

[rhredd1654]

For $19.95 a YEAR, Magic Jack is still the best deal. Unlimited calls anywhere in North America and very crisp and clear calls. Have had it for 4 years now and wouldn't have any other service.

Not the same. You need at least a 5mb internet connection and must leave your computer on in order for Magicjack to function. Now how much does it cost? Verizon Home Connect does not require internet. I don't have a dog in this fight, so JMHO.

[beachgirl]

Just wanted to weigh in since I just read the posts. We have had WHPC since September. We got it at our home in Myrtle Beach and within 10 days (the grace period) took it to the Villages to be sure it would work there. After we found it worked well in TV, we ported our Myrtle Beach number to it and discontinued two land lines. For our Myrtle Beach friends, it is a local call. We pay less than $25.00 per month including taxes. Ours has unlimited calling anywhere in the continental US. We just connect it to the house phone system.

We have an old house phone we attach to it and put in the car so we can call people from the car when we are traveling back and forth. The battery, fully charged, will go 4 or 5 hours. You can turn the phone on and off. If it is off, it will still receive voice mails.

The only negative I see is that you cannot attach a fax machine to it. We have solved that problem by learning to scan documents into our computer and emailing them.

You also need to check it carefully when you buy to be sure Verizon service is available. My brother bought one. He lives in a rural area, and it did not work-apparently Verizon service was either not available or not strong enough, so he had to take it back.

With two homes, this has worked well for us.

[kathy and al]

Not the same. You need at least a 5mb internet connection and must leave your computer on in order for Magicjack to function. Now how much does it cost? Verizon Home Connect does not require internet. I don't have a dog in this fight, so JMHO.
I have 3.0 internet speed connection and my magic jack works just fine. The new Magic Jack Plus does not require a computer hookup and yes, the cost remains the same at $19.95 a year. Just my preference and very glad to have it available.

[George Bieniaszek]

...Can't figure this thing out...

...SO ...IF the power goes out...and therefore the furnace can NOT ignite....
HOW does the lamp light up ?????

Am I MISSING something ?????

I have a gas furnace and sometimes a strong wind will go down the chimmney and blow out the pilot.

[samhass]

I got the Home Phone Connect and really like it so far. I also got Verizon's little 4G Mobile Hotspot for my net. It works great and now I don't have to carry service at my Pa home and Villages home.