Vonage + multi-line cordless phone?

Assuming you mean phone hardware, we haven't decided on anything yet but are looking into phones such as the Uniden TRU8866 and Panasonic KXTG6500B

It's going to be an adapter, whatever vonage is offering that's cheapest (or $0). A reconditioned Motorola VT1005RB, for example, which has jacks for two phone lines. I suppose if we have 3 vonage lines we'll need an ATA with at least 3 jacks.

Okay, but why? What is wrong with what I propose?

On the asterisk list the wisdom was that one shouldn't trust an external voip supplier for the DID's when in a business setting. It is easy enough for a voip gateway to figure out how to roll-over a failed outgoing call to a backup provider. That direction is easy. On the incoming side there isn't a good solution. If customers are calling a DID that is held by an external provider and that provider is having a bad day, you'll lose the call.

The recommendation was to get a PRI/T1 from the phone company and gateway into voip yourself (via asterisk, Cisco or similar gear). Unfortunately the phone company still prices PRI's like they are a monopoly. It will probably be a while before they are in the price range of home users.

-wolfgang

Probably, since the signal from the Vonage TA looks like any other POTS phone line. Each phone conversation takes about 90k so you aren't going to have much room for anything else if you have three phone conversations going on.

But I second the suggestion that you look at other VoIP services, Vonage is expensive and (in my experience at least) offers dreadful service. There are other VoIP providers which will connect to an Asterisk PBX or other equipment and charge less for more features.

What hardware are you using?

No, I meant are you going to use a particular ATA or are you going to use a pc-based system like Asterisk.

Maybe you should look at another service. Teliax has a business package that allows four concurrent instances per each business DID. You could use Asterisk or cheap IP phones.

I think you would have better performance, better support, and lower costs with a provider like Teliax. The hard-wired IP phone will have more features for the price. Take a look at this one which costs about the same as the two line cordless models you are looking at:

What is Vonage charging for four DIDs and their "hunt" scheme? From what I have read from Vonage customers, I wouldn't want to trust my business phone needs to them.

There is a low cost, super low noise device called Combine-a-line, that is perfect for your application!

Marco

Haven't they pulled your account yet, spammer..?

Ivor

why not go the voip and inexpensive adapter to pstn for your voip and pstn phone connections??

marc

combine-a-line link here: