# Comcast Phone/Internet experiences?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-phone-internet-experiences/769697>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-phone-internet-experiences/769697 "2016-10-25T17:20:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-phone-internet-experiences/769697/21 "2016-10-28T12:26:08Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> From a glance, it looks as if a fair amount of technical ability is needed to use it. Not a problem for me - that’s the industry I was in for six or seven years and I still have cases of phone gear around, including PBXs - but not something the average I Hate Comcast type can cope with.

In my case it was. But I’m a computer geek so I like doing that.

But you can get by with just a small amount of tweaking. The main thing is setting your box to use your VoIP’s local access point with login/password. Not any harder than configuring a router.

The fiddly stuff like ring times and such can usually be skipped.

Of course, if you want to go deep there’s all sort of fun things you can do with VoIP in general. I forward our number to a cell phone when we travel, setting up Nomorobo is a snap, etc.

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