Lingo - A Month Later

Okay, a month has past and I am back to report on my feelings about Lingo. As a phone service, it rocks! I am able to make international calls for no extra cost and the quality is amazing! However, I think it's not as good on the people I'm calling's end but that is probably because I'm using Adelphia High Speed Internet and the upload speed is significantly less than the download. However, I have found ways around this:

Lingo has a feature called 'Simultaneous Ring' which is basically like call forwarding except that you can program up to five numbers (including your Lingo phone) to ring simultaneously. I've set it up so all my calls ring on my cell phone and when I answer on my cell, I'm no longer using my home bandwidth - make sense? As long as the numbers you want to ring are within your calling plan, there are no extra charges!

Also, the international numbers you can create for 10 dollars a month are a great deal. You can set up a number anywhere you want and people in that location can make calls to it as if it were a local call. It's great for people who can't get Lingo in their country yet!!

Well, a month going and I'm really happy with the service. Oh, the only down side is that no matter what I've tried, I can't get my DirecTV Tivo to successfully complete its daily calls. At first I was worried about this, but it seems that the Tivo is still able to get its program data from the satellite. I think the only thing the daily call is for is to update the Tivo's firmware. Considering the new features that Tivo has been putting into their firmware lately, such as forcing a recording to delete itself (it's there, you just might not have seen it used yet), it might not be so bad if it can't get these updates. But that's for another post!