V-Tech VTIP8100-2 5.8 GHz Expandable Broadband Caller ID Speakerphone System, 2 Cordless Handsets (Vonage Certified)
The VTech IP8100-2 is an integrated telephone that enables you to take advantage of Vonage VoIP service without sacrificing the user friendliness and comfort of the traditional telephone. Bundled with two cordless expansion handsets, it features handset speakerphone, 2-way paging, built-in data ports, and all the telephone features and quality expected on VTech telephones.
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V-Tech VTIP8100-2 5.8 GHz Expandable Broadband Caller ID Speakerphone System, 2 Cordless Handsets (Vonage Certified) Reviews
I have never been so pleased with a phone as I am with this set. The speaker phone works well, giving a good sound quality with less of the ambient amplification you often find in speaker phones. We purchased these phones to replace a piece-of-junk Uniden set that didn't work more than 4 feet from the base and had so much static you couldn't have a conversation on them. Overall, I highly recommend these phones to anyone with Vonage for their phone service. I love that they share memory, so you only have to program the phonebook once and it is automatically available in the other handset. I love the voicemail waiting display that tells me not only if I have messages waiting, but how many. The sound is clear, the phones hold a charge for an excellent amount of time, and they have some really great features. I am so glad I did.
I've had these sets for more than two years with Vonage. I have zero static as far as problems between the base station and the handset. The rest is wireless to the base station.
There are only two drawbacks I've found on the phones: Clearing the call log is/was a bit convaluted, and the batteries didn't give me much more than a year. Multiple ringer options and other various features make you not even realize this is a special phone at all. Battery life is adequate, call quality (vonage side) is great, and distance that I can take the phone from the base station is great. Rarely do I ever have a call with any issue and typically the quality is very very good on calls.
Other than that, this is one of few products that worked correctly from day one and hasn't needed returned or repaired since. It looks and feels just like a normal cordless phone, except you only have to provide it power.
We've had ours just about 2 years and now we are replacing the batteries because they've lost their ability to stay charged.we'll see if that helps any other problems. Well I do know that at various times, the service just drops calls.some times worse than others. Sometimes I feel like the cell phone commericals ".can you hear me now." The phones, however, seem to pick up and amplify sound to the person on the other end.people are always asking what's that noise.and seem annoyed at even the slightest sound. So I think the main problem is the phone.
Lots of features and unlimited use. my service is up and running. Simply made a call to Vonage to add the Mac Address and that was it. The phones work great and installed with no problems. what's not to like. I use these for my businees phones and at $29.99 you can't really go wrong.
Just DO IT. Yes folks, Vonage is a monster waiting to eat you. Yep. I had JUST gotten my first package from Vonage and found that the phones I had sent to me just were not going to work in my situation. The biggest problem is that it took two phone calls, two hours, and a lot of yelling for me to be able buy, yes buy, these phones from Vonage. ( This was true. Call 4 - Well, guess what, not only did they charge me for the NEXT months service, you know, the month that I cancelled because I was moving.
I had called to make sure were I stood ) I told him he was NOT going to get anything in writing from me since I had NEVER gotten anything in writing from them. They had it all along. And since I didn't cancel before the 19th I had to pay for the next month even though my service was terminated. Not to them. The phones were just right with some limitations. So, for all you folks on the fence about Vonage. No big deal I thought. Was going to be faced with good ole DSL.
Call 2 - (the 18th) I called and AGAIN had a long discussion with the call rep about why I was canceling and how I shouldn't cancel and how I should keep this service and pay for TWO home phones and how I should get a friend to take over this phone account instead of canceling: I was told they can't schedule service termination. I HAD to pay a cancellation fee. After a lot of yelling I got a manager who told me that since I didn't give them 30 days WRITTEN notice of my cancellation, I had to pay the cancellation fee. Call 3 - (19th) I called and stopped the rep and told them I was canceling a stop badgering me about doing it.
You would think that was simple enough but, oh no. They hung up on me. First, the set itself is not bad at all. Fine, I will call back on the dang anniversary day. They also charged me with the cancellation fee. They kept telling me I would have to buy a NEW phone service, or add a new line, or that I just was not allowed. Call 5 - Again with the call rep asking 500 questions about why I cancelled and I exploded. I had to call be the day I wanted it turned off.
Call 1 - After a long discussion with the call rep about why I was canceling and how I shouldn't cancel and how I should keep this service and pay for TWO home phones and how I should get a friend to take over this phone account instead of canceling: I was told they can't schedule service termination. I called and again got the usual badgering about why I cancelled. They have a bit of a short range and you can't cook or even go in the kitchen while talking cause the appliances cause drastic interference. And by the way, if I terminated before the 19th I would have to pay a $40 early cancellation fee since it had not been a FULL year of service.
No bluff. When I would not budge, they looked at my account notes and got the information. I was moving to an apartment were I would NOT have cable internet. This was normal. Apparently, Vonage hires idiots who can't add one plus one to work there. Fast forward to a year later. I had to call be the day I wanted it turned off. Well, finally I got someone who spoke English and graduated elementary school on the phone and they fixed me up.
I was furious and demanded a manager. I would just call back that day. If they put in the order on that day I would have to pay an early termination fee even though I was calling one day in advance. I got a call rep and they acted like nothing was wrong. Call 6 - I had yet to have my credit card credited. Long call short, they credited my charge card that day. After exploding on them yet again and getting a manager, he acted as if I had never called. I told him that he indeed was going to give me all my money back and I had already talked to my credit card company who would refuse all charges from them.
Well, this time they said they cancelled it and tried to make me feel like a bum since I had the nerve to cancel. That was just how it was. He would be "nice" and credit my next month's charge. Fortunately I had the name of the previous guy who of course, wasn't there that day. Sounds simple. They REFUSED to proceed until I told them why.
So I called up Vonage to schedule termination of my service. Of course that meant I had to have a land line. They INSISTED I give them a reason. Three weeks go by. They just wanted to give me crap. Finally, he agreed to credit me everything back.
They simply did not offer it. if this story doesn't convince you NOT to use them, nothing will and you deserve all the hassle and hell they are going to give you. So I called customer "no-service" to tell them that I wanted to send those phones back in and BUY these phones. I had this phone set. They work great.
. I never signed anything.
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