Shaw Cable Phone
08-12-2005, 07:53 AM
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Shaw Cable Phone
Don't know if I've posted this before (Alzheimer's 
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Anyone have any comments about this? Good? Bad? Pros? Cons?
Can they retain a "smart ring" second number? If not, how would I get around losing my FAX machine function?
Since we can keep our phone numbers, does Shaw pay some sort of fee to Telus when they take customers?
(Telus is really starting to piss me off.)
) .................................Anyone have any comments about this? Good? Bad? Pros? Cons?
Can they retain a "smart ring" second number? If not, how would I get around losing my FAX machine function?
Since we can keep our phone numbers, does Shaw pay some sort of fee to Telus when they take customers?
(Telus is really starting to piss me off.)
08-12-2005, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by xviper,Aug 12 2005, 07:53 AM
(Telus is really starting to piss me off.)
We're looking into switching to Shaw for internet and Sprint for home. If Shaw can do both that would rock!
08-12-2005, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Indecision,Aug 12 2005, 09:14 AM
I second that!
We're looking into switching to Shaw for internet and Sprint for home. If Shaw can do both that would rock!
We're looking into switching to Shaw for internet and Sprint for home. If Shaw can do both that would rock!
08-12-2005, 09:20 AM
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Go to Digital Home Canada and start reading. And seriously check out Vonage. They offer pretty much the same service for $15 less a month ($40 vs $55). And I understand that BestBuy is selling the Vonage PAP2 box for $75 right now. Vonage will give you a $65 credit and supposedly there will be no activation fee through BestBuy.
The only down side is that it'll cut slightly into your Shaw internet bandwidth. That's not a problem if you only download, but if you do file sharing, it'll hurt (Shaw's upload rate sucks). There are a few people over here who run both Vonage and Shaw and they can't tell the difference between it and a regular phone.
The cool thing is that you can take your Vonage box (which is a tiny little box) and plug it anywhere in the WORLD into an internet connection and you have your local number right there. I'm very close to pulling the trigger on Vonage myself. I recently upgraded a few services on my Telus line, and it went very poorly. My frustration is at an all time high.
Chris.
The only down side is that it'll cut slightly into your Shaw internet bandwidth. That's not a problem if you only download, but if you do file sharing, it'll hurt (Shaw's upload rate sucks). There are a few people over here who run both Vonage and Shaw and they can't tell the difference between it and a regular phone.
The cool thing is that you can take your Vonage box (which is a tiny little box) and plug it anywhere in the WORLD into an internet connection and you have your local number right there. I'm very close to pulling the trigger on Vonage myself. I recently upgraded a few services on my Telus line, and it went very poorly. My frustration is at an all time high.
Chris.
08-12-2005, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by 4doorj,Aug 12 2005, 11:22 AM
vonage is VoiP right?
i heard there is one problem with VOIP
emergency numbers wont be able to recognize your phone number or addy...
thats what i hear
i heard there is one problem with VOIP
emergency numbers wont be able to recognize your phone number or addy...
thats what i hear
08-12-2005, 09:30 AM
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Ohh, and obviously, if there's a power failure in your house, chances are you're going to lose your VoIP service. You router and PAP2 adaptor run off of wall adaptors (but then so do most of today's advanced phones...)
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08-12-2005, 09:59 AM
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Thanks, Chris.
Sounds very interesting. I've got a lot of reading to do and still some answers to get. It would seem from just scanning over the site, I'll need a second number for my FAX machine and that second number is almost as much money as the first number. And I need to find out how this system will work with all the extensions I have in the house.
Sounds very interesting. I've got a lot of reading to do and still some answers to get. It would seem from just scanning over the site, I'll need a second number for my FAX machine and that second number is almost as much money as the first number. And I need to find out how this system will work with all the extensions I have in the house.
08-12-2005, 10:07 AM
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You can go even cheaper! Primus, $30/month, same basic level of service, will work with a fax machine, and you can get a second number for $4/month (EDIT: though the second number and first number share the same line; not too sure how that would work with a fax machine answering the line; can you configure a fax to recognize a different ring pattern and answer based on that?).
08-12-2005, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by chrissa,Aug 12 2005, 11:07 AM
You can go even cheaper! Primus, $30/month, same basic level of service, will work with a fax machine, and you can get a second number for $4/month (EDIT: though the second number and first number share the same line; not too sure how that would work with a fax machine answering the line; can you configure a fax to recognize a different ring pattern and answer based on that?).
Primus, huh? Geez, more reading to do.
