Worth the expense?

[sacarino]

I just wanted to get some feedback on the W2C. I have been reading *quite* a bit of not so nice oddities about this thing.... I would like to have one, but not if the cons outnumber the pros.

I was curious if you had to purchase it over again, would you?

Thanks for the thoughts,
Shane

[This message was edited by Sacarino on Sat, 21 February 2004 at 10:19 PM.]

[Msekelsky]

But only if running Windows 2000 or XP. When I first got my Way2Call I was still running w98 and the device was pretty quirky. Once I moved to XP that all wnet away. Mine's been pretty solid and in my prior experience (although not with HS), modems can be just as troublesome.

[anogee]

I'd say, if you want something really reliable, spend the $39 and buy an answering machine. W2C (and HSPhone) that controls it has been getting more reliable recently, but still I won't say it does EVERYTHING correctly more than 95% of the time. The other 5% it does something incorrectly, which may or may not be fatal to the call. The other modems, however, may not be any better.

[sponnath]

100% reliable it has not been. Mine has been unplugged for about 2 months now by my wife. I am fully rebuilding my HS machine now and maybe, just maybe, I will try the W2C again.
When it works, I really like the functionality. I missed having it in place now. But until I know that the W2C will not lock out the phone line, I can't rely on it. My father-in-law had a stroke and my wife MUST have a clear reliable phone line. This is also the reason why I will not use Time Warner's cable based phone system. My cable service is too unreliable.

SteveP

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[rjh]

Well, we were dealing with some lockup issues for quite a while, but it looks like the latest build HomeSeer Phone has fixed those. No one has reported a lockup with the new version.

-Rich

HomeSeer Technologies LLC

[anogee]

The lockup issues are in fact fixed, which is great, but I think other nagging issues still persist. In the last few months I've had one occasion where HSP hungup on me a few seconds after making an outgoing call, one occasion where the voice didn't come on the line when I pressed the promt, and several occasions where my phones never rang when I am receiving a call, but luckily the voice did alert me to the call.

Unfortunatly, I'm a bad test subject because we probably only make or receive one call a day tops. (Mainly use cellular.) I'd like to have several months go by where everything always works. Its certainly is working better than it ever has, but I haven't experienced these several months of complete troublefree operation either. If the latest code did in fact fix everything, I apologize that I'm not in a situation where I could immediately recognize that.

[sacarino]

Interesting.

Thanks for the input, folks. I appreciate it.

Shane