Comments for ooma phone reviews

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:12:49 +0000

I have had the original Ooma for about a year now… works great with no problems. I have even taken it with me traveling to places my cell phone has no reception but since I have an internet connection I can hook it up. I have two other friends that have it as well and they love it. I think if you are a person experiencing problems with it, you might have your ISP to blame. If you are already using Vonage or something similar from your phone or cable company, give it a try and save some $$$ in the long run.

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:36:37 +0000

I bought my ooma system in May of 2009 also. I bought it after thinking…Hmmm..why would I want to spend $25/month when I can spend $200 now and get a return on my investment in 9 months. Most ROEs are in the years! As of today, I have saved $25/month since May 2010. Only one outage directly related to ooma for about 6 hours about a year ago. Since then, never down. So, the saying, “Pay me now or pay me later” is so true! Since I joined, only taxes ($3.50/mo according to Wikipedia) have been added, my old VOIP provider charged me that too (Thank you FCC) but since I bought in early, I’m grandfathered and don’t. I love keeping $25 in my pocket every month vs paying my old VOIP provider. And quality is the best of all the VOIP providers I have had. What about you?

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Miguel DeGuzman

Miguel DeGuzman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:02:11 +0000

Does anyone have the experience of using ooma overseas? How was the reception?

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Rosemarie

Rosemarie — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:07:40 +0000

I have ahd ooma since May of 2009, my first phone call was to my mechanic, I know this because ooma gives you a log so you can see all the calls in.out.missed for the entire time you own your phone.
Since I purchased this phone for less than $300.00 I have saved $1185. over my Verizon bill. Not bad.
The phone works great, I have the basic plan and it is just fine for me, I can listen to my messages over the net. I can see my call log since the day I bought it and the q

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:31:43 +0000

Here is what I would like to do. I’m planning to drop my DSL and add cable internet with AT&T. Then hook my main wireless phone upto Ooma with cable internet using my 4 wirless handsets through the house. Then drop my monthly landline. Is that a good idea?????

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Dale

Dale — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:11:52 +0000

BUYERS BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always heard you get what you pay for well believe it free service means free service. I have a small office and the sales person said no problem wrong two weeks later they decide not to do small businesses. It took them 3 months to port my two phone numbers and since that time I have had LOUSY service. Save yourself a headache pay your phone bill and be content because this will cost you more in the long run.

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Dan

Dan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:58:33 +0000

I have “Clearwire” as my “ISP” my question is, will ooma telo work in conjunction with the Clearwire modem and my wireless router and can the landline house wires through the walls of the house be connected to the ooma??

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by FrankNBeans

FrankNBeans — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:59:51 +0000

DO NOT I repeat DO NOT waste your time buying this product. I purchased the Telo only to discover I CANNOT call anyone with anonymous call blocking enabled. I was told by support “can you wait 10-15 days for an update and it should be fixed”. WTF??

Are you going to buy a new car and drive it home park it in your garage, wake the next morning to find it will not start. You call the dealer ship and they tell you “wait for an update we know there is a problem, but were sorry you can’t drive your new car”. Ooma support has to be the worst I have ever experienced. This company like a lot of other companies outsources the support overseas. Big Mistake!

These people read from a script and have NO TECHNICAL SKILLS WHATSOEVER! You will find if purchasing the Telo its full of bugs, and you’ll get no support, or excuses and we’ll fix that soon. If you would like to see what I am referring to just visit there forum from the company website and you’ll see how many problems they have. BUYER BEWARE!!!

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Mick

Mick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:05 +0000

Regarding using Ooma (or any IP based phone) over wireless internet (where the internet comes into your house wirelessly, unlike cable or DSL), in general this will not work well because the wireless connectivity adds additional latency to the voice which results in parties “talking over” the other party. I good rule of thumb is to keep the entire latency less than 150 milliseconds and cellular broadband systems cannot dependably meet this. Wireless internet (like CLearWire) may be marginal.

Regarding the Ooma phone “breaking up all over the place” around 6-10PM – this is due to congestion on the network. It could be that your internet service provider is getting clogged as demand rises in the evening for all it’s customers (this is more likely for wireless ISPs that cable or DSL), but it is by far more likely that there is some traffic being generated somewhere else in your own home which is competing for your bandwidth, and you do not have QoS services enabled on your router to give priority to your Ooma traffic. If this happens again, check to see if your kids are downloading peer2peer or bittorrent files or watching youtube/Netflix video streaming. If so then the problem is QoS. To fix this, either place your Ooma between your DSL/Cable Modem and your router. Alternatively you can place the router between the DSL/Cable Modem and your Ooma box, but only if you configure the router to give QoS (quality of Service) priority to the Ooma voice traffic.

Comment on ooma Phone Reviews by Steven

Steven — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:43:02 +0000

I am interested in purchasing the Ooma Telo. My question is… My modem is upstairs at my computer. As far as I can tell the connection is … modem to Telo… Telo to home phone. Can I connect the Telo to my in house telephone wireing and place my telephone down stairs at a centraly located area? Modem to Telo… Telo to upstairs wall jack… downstairs wall jack to telephone.

Thanks for any help.
Steven