Anybody here Ooma?

LeeH · 01-20-2011, 03:50 PM

The www.woot.com deal of the day was an Ooma Telo Voip system. Just wondering how well these thing work.

Moses · 10-12-2011, 09:33 AM

Just hooked mine up. My old number gets ported today. Adios, AT&T.

Saving money is nice, but I love eliminating telemarketers.

LeeH · 10-12-2011, 09:43 AM

Deja vu... we've had ours for a while. Way fewer telemarketing calls. Best of all, no more calls from collection agencies looking for a deadbeat with a name similar to mine.

Baz · Baz's Garage

I have one but have not hooked it up yet - I don't have a telephone jack near the PC but will try to fish one down the wall one day, hopefully.

The consumer advocate Clark Howard speaks very highly of Ooma so I would give it a lot of credibility based on his endorsement alone.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

I use a Net-Talk. I pay $29/yr. The device was $59 and first year of service is included. I purchased 4 units. One is for outgoing faxes. One is an extra phone. Third is for my parents and the fourth is in Mexico.

How much were the Ooma units?

Moses · 10-12-2011, 12:03 PM

My bills were $60-80/month. Nice to take that down to less than $1/month

foxpaws · foxpaws's Garage

I ooma - you oprah?

Actually - I do ooma - I love it - my domestic phone bill is $3.00 per month (which are all taxes and 911 fees). Plus - they have this great thing if you have relatives overseas and they ooma, you get to call overseas for uber cheap.

And the voice quality is better than my land line was.

Redbeard - I had to buy a $200 unit - but it is multi line, plus, I plugged a wireless phone base into it so, I can have phones anywhere.

And I can do everything online - including listening to my phone messages. And it is hooked up with my cell phone - so my cell phone tells me when I have a message on ooma, and I can get the messages on my cell phone then.

They are also looking for ways to hook in with your cell phone - so if they can eventually reduce my cell phone bill, like they did my land line... wow...

rnln · 10-12-2011, 02:04 PM

I did. Sounds good and performs well, except you can't fax on the standard service.

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

We tried Vonage years ago and hated it, so we forgot about VOIP until a few months ago when we switched our phone over to AT&T UVerse, since we use UVerse for our internet and TV. It works great and the sound quality is excellent.

911Urge · 911Urge's Garage

Ooma user for about 6 months on my home office line. Im on the phone 4-5 hrs a day with no issues. See ya Verizon. No more $90/mo phone bills. Plus I can forward calls to any other phone number. Also you can control it and listen to voice messages on Droid/iPhone.

Neilk · 05-16-2016, 05:56 PM

You guys still on Ooma? Thinking about ditch landline and getting it.

stealthn · 05-17-2016, 05:43 AM

We just became a RingCentral reseller and really like the system. No as cheap as Ooma, but you get video and conference calling, fax and messages to email, with Outlook, Office 365 and Google integration. For businesses, it's a great offering.

Moses · 05-17-2016, 06:25 AM

Ooma user for years now. It's flawless.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

I have been using Ooma for several years. Like Moses said, flawless. If the internet goes down the phone calls are forwarded to my cell phone. If it was my choice I would dump the home land line but the wife wants to keep that number. $3.95 per month is pretty cheap.

island911 · 05-17-2016, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by gh85carrera

i have been using ooma for several years. Like moses said, flawless. If the internet goes down the phone calls are forwarded to my cell phone. If it was my choice i would dump the home land line but the wife wants to keep that number. $3.95 per month is pretty cheap.

+1

berettafan · 05-17-2016, 09:24 AM

FYI if it goes over a server you can count on it being recorded and potentially kept/stolen. this includes conversations.

I had VOIP in my office. Had problems with dropped calls and in the process of trying to fix the issue the provider told us point blank they listened to a call to verify sound was coming through.

Someone here suggested they may have looked at some sort of data stream and not listened to actual talk....dunno. I was told 'listened to'.

I personally ditched it and went back to Verizon.

i'm doing what I can to avoid putting my safety/privacy in the hands of basement dwelling computer dorks with social problems that probably should have been diagnosed and treated 10 years ago before they hit puberty.