Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Service from Vonage

A Service that May Be Downright Dangerous Without the Proper Precautions

Vonage is not all bad. I actually still use their service, but I am not currently using the service the same way I was using it when I first signed up. Vonage can work really well in certain instances. First, I will give a few instances in which Vonage may work well. Then, I will list the ten reasons why it probably will not work well (and may even be dangerous) for everyone else.

Vonage may work well for you if:

• You have a regular non-VoIP land line as backup for the times when Vonage is not working properly, and you don't want to bother getting all your friends and family signed up on Skype.
  


• You hardly ever talk on the phone, and have a cell phone or a neighbor's phone you can rely on in case of an emergency.
  


• You have an extremely stable high speed Internet connection that basically never goes down, and that is the connection you will set up your Vonage line on.
  
  This is my current situation. I have a home based business, so I now have a T1 line coming to my house that never goes down (unless it's a short planned outage), even in the stormiest weather.
  
  

If you do not fit in one of these categories, then please pay close attention to the following list of ten reasons you should not buy service from Vonage. Before I got my T1 line, this list would have been very important to me.

1. Using Vonage as your only phone line can actually be dangerous unless you have an extremely stable Internet connection. That is because you cannot call for help (such as 911) in an emergency when your Internet connection is down.

2. Your phone often will not work if your Internet connection is unstable. Each time your Internet connection goes down, your phone goes down with it. This is extremely annoying when the phone cuts off in the middle of a conversation. The quality of the sound can also be very poor if your Internet connection is fluctuating or slow. Sometimes the quality can be so bad that you can't tell what the other person is saying.