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NOS2Go4Me,Aug 3 2007, 08:06 AM Wrote:Every responsible VoIP provider is at least recommending you have some sort of cell backup. I mean hell, even conscientious Bell reps tell you to have a backup of some sort.

It's just common sense.

VoIP is just another service over a different type of infrastructure. If you have a backup system that uses a different infrastructure from your primary, you're set. Ultimately everything connects to the PSTN anyways, so you're never totally redundant.
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the ironic thing is that Rogers doesn't market their Home Phone as a VOIP service..

Quote:  How is this different from Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone services?
 
  Rogers Home Phone service does not require or use the public Internet as VOIP services do. This difference ensures that potential slow-downs that occur as a result of load and other factors on the Internet do not affect
Rogers Home Phone. Using a state-of-the art, managed, dedicated network, Rogers Home Phone service provides our customers with high-quality, robust telephone services. Rogers Home Phone service is not VOIP. Rogers Home Phone service is delivered over the Rogers privately owned and monitored secure packet cable network that is NOT accessible to the general public, unlike VOIP services that run over the public internet.

and it IS technically VOIP, but without the advantage of allowing you to travel with your number like you can with traditional VOIP carriers...

and as we've learned, it's not as robust as VOIP because if I had VOIP, I could have just found an internet connection, forwarded my calls, and I wouldn't have missed 2 weeks of calls...

thank god I still had my cell -- and my dry loop DSL -- which has never gone out except for when I switched my landline to rogers and the DSL had to be bound to another circuit number... and that's been over 7 years of impeccable DSL service -- in an appartment building!

From what the diagnostics on my cable box show, I would be hesitant to switch to Rogers internet because the network does slow down on occasion and they do sometimes have difficulty getting the bandwidth to my cable box at times...