Quick late-night entry to say that I am quite pleased by the Vonage service, spent just over 4 hours on a call to Canada just now. Actually, it is quite possible that using Vonage increased the quality of the phone call, things seemed clearer on either end. The only minor gripe is that it would seem 4 hours is the limit on call length before it automatically hangs up - I know this doesn't sound like a problem to the majority of the blog reading world, but we've gone 6 1/2 hours before! This is still an improvement over the calling card though, the calling card hangs up after 3 hours :)
Time for sleep, perhaps the Canada saga will be continued next entry
Posted by Michael at June 29, 2004 02:37 AMWith no warning?!? How very odd! Are you sure it wasn't cutting off AT a specific time, rather than AFTER a specific time?
Posted by: MadMup at June 29, 2004 02:50 PMThe call was exactly 240 minutes long according to the record it shows online, 240 / 60 = 4 hours. I assume this is some sort of protection feature in case both parties somehow fall asleep or forget they are on the phone or something. The calling card does the same after 3 hours, a no warning cut-off. I didn't find any documentation for it on either site, though I admittedly didn't look very hard.
Posted by: SQ at June 29, 2004 06:05 PM