Ernesto stole my phone
Posted by Matthew Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:00 GMT
Our land line phone hasn’t worked since Tropical depression Ernesto hit over Labor day weekend. The line was dead when we returned from vacation. It came back for a day or two then went dead again. K. called Verizon and they sent a guy yesterday. But, miraculously it started working before the repairman arrived. Then when we awoke this morning, the line was dead again. Fun!
So I decided to get with the program and buy a VoIP enabling device called PhoneGnome. It uses your broadband connection to make a VoIP call. You can choose one of their plans or a plan from a provider that supports SIP (there are many). If your broadband is down or you are calling 911, it uses your regular phone line. Hopefully it will not care much about us not having a working phone line most days. We’ll see.
