# Vonage, anyone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vonage-anyone/432208>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vonage-anyone/432208 "2008-01-04T00:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vonage-anyone/432208/21 "2008-01-04T22:33:30Z")

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[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD]  
Odd - it works quite well with DirecTV DVR, pay per view, etc.  
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I tried for a couple of months but could never get it to work.

So we networked the Tivo instead. That’s nicer anyway for us.

I think some people did get it to work, but when I was doing this (a couple of years ago) it wasn’t recommended to try to use Tivo and Vonage together.

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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vonage-anyone/432208/22 "2008-01-11T04:57:57Z")

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[QUOTE=muttrox]  
What if you’re travelling, anyway to reset it? That’s the wife’s concern, we’ll be on vacation, child falls off mountain, Vonage has wrong 911, all is lost…  
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I’m missing something here. How are you planning to use Vonage? Are you taking the box with you on vacation and plugging it into the nearest Ethernet network? (On top of a mountain?) It runs over the internet, but you don’t need a computer to run it. It’s not Skype. It works with regular phone.

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