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Posted by: ootpek

My cunning plan to reduce my Rogers use to the bare minimum and yet still get to use my phone as I like is coming along nicely. As of this month I will be down to a $20 corp plan with $5 internet and email and $7 intl text messaging and wont go over on anything.

I now want to find a VOIP provider with Toronto incoming numbers and SIP devices. Vbuzzer seems to be the one I am considering now...but they are still in "Startup Deal Mode" so I worry about their costs going up later.

Any others out there people are using?

Also if it is one that also lets me send SMS's from a web or computer interface that would be great too. I send a lot of International SMS'es and no reason I can't take some of that away from Roger's as well since they just upped their prices on that.

Posted by: NerdyBlog

There's this great company called Vonag..................nevermind lol! They're being sued!

Posted by: pepper99

Primus Talkbroadband.

I ditched traditional phone service for the Primus VoIP service approaching 3 years ago now.

They don't offer the SMS and all that other stuff you are looking for, but if your looking for a mainstream carrier that is actually reliable, consider them. If your looking for a "jack of all trades" VoIP provider, be prepared for often questionable service.

Make sure you prequality your net connection before you go with any VoIP carrier - too many people sign up to VoIP services not understanding that their crappy internet connection will yield crappy voice services, and then of course blame it on the VoIP carrier instead of their ISP where the blame belongs.

If you want a referral code for Primus let me know...it'll give you your first month free.

Posted by: dot_null

Here is a thread about a free VoIP provider that offers Toronto numbers: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19...al-numbers-only

YMMV, but they said they will be supporting SIP devices pretty soon.

Posted by: vaporize

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Originally Posted by pepper99

Primus Talkbroadband.

I ditched traditional phone service for the Primus VoIP service approaching 3 years ago now.

I am sorry to say, I have completely opposite experience with my Primus voip, I have it a month after their initial launch, so it must be around the same time as you. My experience has been poor in terms of sudden call drops (randomly any time from 15 minute to 30 minutes). I use it as my personal line so all my friends and family know that if they get dropped, they just call back.

I initially used it because it was cheap like $20 local landline and I do not use it for business. It is not reliable enough.

I am considering changing it to vonage or ana... company since they are either more reliable or much cheaper ($10 I believe somebody was telling me).

STAY AWAY FROM PRIMUS.

Posted by: pepper99

What ISP, and what were your latency, packet loss, and jitter numbers at?

Posted by: vaporize

Primus: tired 10 different ISP within canada/us, all same drop call result, consistent over the last 3 yrs LOL

On the other side, for that http://www.freephoneline.ca offer that dot_null posted, it does seem 'acceptable' quality (I just signed up and called a friend), has about a 1 sec delay but I cannot really complain, it's free.

Posted by: pepper99

Forgive me if I fail to believe you.

I've had few problems with Primus - its our sole landline now and I wouldn't accept anything less then service that works well consistently.

99% of voip issues have the ISP at the root of the issue, and I must also ask why you've stuck with Primus for 3 years if the service your getting is so terrible?

Have you cared to ask for help in the TBB portal forums? Or called tech support?

Sorry, but this seems like your just trying to badmouth the company without a valid reason, or based on hearsay.

Posted by: vaporize

You are forgiven, I personally do not really care if you believe or not believe me. I only post my experience for people to consider before they pay for a service with a poor service company. Just like how people go read Bell's forums and know they have no concept of retention, if they still wanna join, considered that be warned.

For 2 years out of 3, I was travelling, I seriously don't care if the calls from my gf drop or not. And yes, that line is mainly for her.

Called tech support 3 times in the beginning, no such thing as support. One time when my voip takes down my rogers router, the only tech support I receive is actually from rogers, telling me that I have to download the primus firmware for one of their voip router upgrade. Primus call me back a week later to ask how they can help me, absolutely ridiculous. Not that I support Rogers as I recently ported my number from them, but they do have much better SERVICES.

On the other hand, I am sure there will always be dis-satisfy customers for every company, just look at all those ______ sucks.com domains. This is just my poor experience with Primus.

Posted by: merczephyr

I don't know about SMS, but I have a Toronto # with Lingo (Primus). But you need a US address to ship the box to. If you have family/friends in the states, have the box sent to them, and then have them ship it to you. lingo.com

Posted by: Churner

Just buy a Toronto number from DIDx and set it to ring to the open SIP provider of your choice, like Gizmo Project or one of DIDx's partner providers. DIDx had numbers in many Toronto exchanges the last time I checked.

Posted by: @Class

les.net,

A Manitoba based Telephony provider, has DID's, SIP and global termination.

647 / 416 DID's

I've been with them for a while, very reliable.

Posted by: Amw3000

Many voip providers are running out of 416 and 647 numbers. Voicenetwork.ca and les.net are 2 great providers.

Posted by: @Class

While on the same subject, I've noticed LES.net doesn't support the N95 at all...

I've been trying for a while, with a whole bunch of settings and its not going.

Posted by: Amw3000

Your trying to connect directly? It works on my E60. What settings are you trying to use?

Posted by: lmcjipo

A friend of mine is considering switching from Vonage to Primus TalkBroadband because of the difference in price and a few features on Primus that he likes which Vonage doesn't offer. He doesn't have any problems with his Vonage line.

According to his SpeedTest results, he is getting 6800 kb/s download and 700 kb/s upload (which maybe might have be one of the reasons he doesn't have any complaints about the sound quality from VOIP companies like Vonage and Skype).

Anyone else with some other comments/opinions?