Latest reviews about Lingo VoIP

livinginthe805 says "Run as fast as you can. " about Lingo VoIP

livinginthe805 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:24:53 GMT

I was a victim of credit card fraud and this company is 100% a sham.

Every email link was rejected back to me and the phone numer is a hard closing company in India.

BE CAREFUL!!!

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SixtensPappa448 says "Great deal for the price, especially if you call Europe" about Lingo VoIP

SixtensPappa448 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:10 GMT

I used to have Vonage and was satisfied, but Lingo offers free (or at least included in your monthly cost) calling to land lines in Europe. My wife's family lives in Sweden and this is a no-brainer for us. Even if the monthly plans for Vonage are similar in cost, the free-Europe calling is great. My wife will often speak with her sister an hour at a time, at least once per week. Even at 5c per minute (if you can find it that low), that's a $150/yr savings on her sister alone. Let's not even get into the 3x weekly half hour talks with her mom, and the occasional calls to her friends back home...

My favorite things about Lingo:

Cheap!
- For less than $30/month including taxes, I have phone service
Transferrable
- We lived in Sweden for a year. I took my Vonage unit (the size of a cable-modem) with us and hooked it up to our broadband connection there.
- We had our US telephone number while we were in Sweden allowing our US-based friends and family to call us for free and we could call them, and our...

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ntwrkguru says "Poor call quality...still." about Lingo VoIP

ntwrkguru — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:20:23 GMT

Having had several VOIP providers over the last 5 years, I'm no stranger to the game. I first tried Lingo 2 years ago as an alternative to using my cellular minutes during peak time. Recently, we were looking to move from the cable company's digital voice service to save a few bucks and I decided to give Lingo another shot (the $25 gift gard helped a bit...)

Within 1 week, I called to cancel. The same easy ordering process...the same poor quality calls.

Ordering was very easy. I had my ATA within 2 days both times. The web portal is about average in terms of it's usability. Features were standard as with other VOIP providers.

Having used Vonage, AT&T CallVantage, Comcast digital voice and Skype also, I had a pretty good range of services to compare with. With Lingo, I would routinely experience delayed dial tone, dropped calls, incoming calls going straight to voicemail, and garbled calls. I would compare the experience to using a cell phone in a very poor reception area. ......

davidnp says "Great Price, Good Flexible Service!" about Lingo VoIP

davidnp — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:32:17 GMT

I've had Lingo VOIP service for over 1 year now. For all my calls in the US and 23 other countries, I pay less than $26 with taxes included.

The service works great and the way the "box" works it can provide enhanced calling depending on how you have your network installed.

Since changing my network to DSL from Cable; my modem is the wireless router too, call quality is still good, but not quite as good as when you go from modem to Lingo Box, to router. Allowing the Lingo Box to take the bandwidth it needs to provide best quality does work the best. Since this switch, I've found it harder to send the occasional fax that I need to send and occasionally, the call quality is not as good.

So, depending on your network and bandwidth; for any VOIP provider, you can have great call quality and features for a lot less than standard land lines. I save way over 50% from Qwest local only and per minute or flat rate plans they offer for long distance.

I had Packet8 prior to Lingo. When they raised their......

oklahomaroute66 says "Not a happy customer" about Lingo VoIP

oklahomaroute66 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:25:33 GMT

Lingo VoIP is an alternative to traditional land line phones. It uses the Internet to carry the connections. I don't know all of the science behind it, but that's how it generally works. I've used Lingo VoIP in the past, and the service was acceptable, but not perfect. Calls broke up quite often, but it was a cheaper alternative to AT&T, which has a monopoly on our local phone service. Lingo also has free long distance in all 50 states, which is great--or would be great if it worked.

I decided to go with Lingo again 2 weeks ago due to my family being all over the country at the moment. I received my Lingo Linksys router and installed it within minutes. Installation is easy and straight forward. There are instructions for those with one computer or a home network. Since we have a network, I used those instructions and had a dial tone in less than 10 minutes from set up.

From setup, the connection quality was average to poor. After several days, I decided to up my Internet connection......