I'm not having "that many" issues just a lot of issues that I never had before and am trying to understand the reasons. They aren't constant but they are intermittent enough to be annoying. It's also possible that some people are more tolerant than others when it comes to these issues.

While it may (or may not) be true, I just can't accept the fact that it's "the nature of VOIP." Occasional "audio problems" (echos, garbled calls etc) I can understand being "the nature of VOIP" but not what gets described as network issues where the problem is caused by "the downstream provider" or a database problem etc. Those issues aren't internet related or the "nature of VOIP."

As VOIPo grows and becomes more of a mainstream company where people just want telephone service like they're used to you will find they will become even less tolerant than those of us with some understanding and technical knowledge. I have no idea how many subs VOIPo has but I experienced a company that grew from 250,000 to almost 2,000,000 in less than 2 years from the inside and I can assure you (and as I'm sure you know) that the tolerance level drops as the number of "joe six-packs" sign up. They don't care about the nature of the internet or voip or forwarding ports. They just want phone service.

I appreciate your interest but unless your firing me I'm going to stick it out.

Please don't take it personally when I post a message stating I have had an issue or confirm an issue someone else has had as being similar to mine. For the most part people don't log on to these types of forums just to say "everything is hunky dory." "That's the nature of a support board."