Lingo Day 3 and 4

Day 3 - Nothing exciting, my package looks like it will be ontime and delivered on Friday!!

Day 4 - At first I thought this would be the same as Day 3, however I was poking around the Lingo site and noticed the feature called, "Simultaneous Ring". Basically, if this feature is enabled and someone calls your Lingo phone, the call will ring on up to five different phone numbers that you specify. Even though I didn't have my phone adapter yet, I decided to give this a try. I enabled the feature and added my cell phone to the list of numbers to ring when I recieved a call. I tested this out by calling my temporary local number and my cell phone rang immediately! Amazing! I had a friend in Brazil call my new Brazilian telephone number and the call came right through! It was great, the quality was better than most phone cards and I was talking for a flate rate!!! Incredible, I can't wait until tomorrow when I can actually start to make calls!


(A side note, when I first set up my "Simultaneous Ring" feature, I had a problem when my international friends in Brazil tried to call me. This was because I had forgotten to put a +1 in front of my number - so, initially I had 5125551212 and this was resulting in my friends hearing a ring and then silence. I made the number +15125551212 and presto! It worked!)

Lingo - Days 1 and 2

Well, after careful debate, I've decided to purchase a Lingo VOIP telephone. For those of who don't know, a Lingo phone basically operates like a regular phone except that it uses the Internet to send communication. Anyway, I had to decide between Vonage and Lingo and I decided to go with Lingo because they offer unlimited calling to a lot of countries, particularly Russia and Brazil, for just 49.95 a month. Plus, I'm able to set up a phone number in one of these countries so that my friends can call me. Considering I spent 10 bucks on two phone cards to call a friend in Brazil the other day, 49.95 for unlimited is an awesome deal!

Anyway, I've decided to keep a short journal about my experience with Lingo here as I had a lot of difficulty finding any good information on the Internet to influence my choice. What follows documents my experience.

Day 1 - I decide to order Lingo, so I go to their website. Everything is filled in on their site, including porting my existing phone line (Qwest) over to Lingo. I was also able to add my international number after I had completed my order. I placed this order midday, so I don't think the adapter will ship. However, I could be wrong.

Day 2 - I recieved two things from Lingo today: 1) A notification saying that my current number will be ported over in about 10 days - hopefully I didn't make a mistake in porting my number before I determined how good the service is. and 2) A notification that my adapter will ship today and I should have it within 3-5 days (shipped UPS Ground). So, until then I wait for the guy in brown to leave a package on my door.