these cheaters are hungry for money. do not expext them to refund you anything.

Avoid these cheaters at all cost. They charge your credit as much as they can. They rise up the international rates without telling you, and their customer service are all chinese and not communicative.

I have had this plan for two years, but had no other options to change it (our apt is old and verizon refused to fix the telephone lines). Their service is not so good, and they rise up the international rates without sending you a notice. They actually have lower international rates, but you have to call and make a request. I did call for the rate change two months ago. All of their customer cares are chinese speakers and neither they understand you, nor you understand their accent. So I requested for a change and the chinese guy said he will change it for me, but still after two months I am paying the high rates for international calls. I called again today to complain, and they said they do not have any record of my request, so they will not refund me, and another chinese guy said he will request the low rates for me this time. He mentioned a few chinese words, that I did not understand. I hope they do not mean "we will not give you the lower rates"!!!

I really hope they break since they are cheaters!

I had lingo for 1 and a half years and up until two months ago they were great. then the trouble started. the customer service was unfriendly and uninformed about their own equipment. they replaced the router after two requests and several promises to do so. meanwhile i had no service but continued to be debited by them. this is quite annoying knowing you are being screwed on a systematic basis. they couldn't get my service to work anymore even though nothing at my end changed. what's more they refused to refund my last two payment and i'm not involved in two separate visa debit disputes to get my money back. they are just about worthless at the present . deal with them at your own risk.

The Customer Support at Lingo dont eve know how thier connection works. Sometimes they will give you wrong information. ANyway i have contacted Lingo in regards to connecting asterisk to their system but was told that they do not support that service.

You can actually connect your lingo to your SBC gateway or router without having to buy another SBC line (THis is what the customer Service at Lingo will tell you). I have been usin the service for over a year now, there is no degradation of any sort. One more secret, its WAYYYYY better than Vonage. I used vonage for 2 and half years, so i can tell the difference

i signed up for lingo in spring of 2005. i went with the 500 min/month plan, and even when i went over the 500 mins, the most i ever spent was 39.00USD for going over by like 1000 minutes. the overage is $0.03 per minute, pretty much on par with other voip to PSTN providers.

i went with lingo instead of vonage becuse vonage could not get me a number in the (513) area code. i don't know is vonage is still having this issue or not, but lingo was able to get me the number i wanted and is cheaper than vonage.

i was able to disconnect the phone wiring in my house and wire the lingo adapter (ata/terminator) into the house's phone wiring. it took about 15 minutes, a screw driver, and some electrical tape). with that said, i figured out how to do it with info i got from a vonage forum, not a lingo one.

i have had the service for over a year, and while i don't use it all that much, my kids do. i have been using my cell as my primary phone for years, and lingo lets my daughter talk to her friends without giving my cell number out to a bunch of 10 year old girls.

my only complaint (if you could call it a complaint) is that there is no softphone software, or as far as i can tell, no sip info for making free voip calls to other voip phone services, and little or no support for BYOD configurations.

lingo actually continued working while my ISP (insightBB) was having this huge DNS outage. so my home computers couldn't get to the internet, but my lingo phone still worked.

my conclusion: if you want absolute bottom dollar pricing, you may want to go with gizmo, skype, or voipbuster since they are pretty much pay as you go. if you want to use your own softphone and asterisk server, you may want to go with another service provider. if you want a simple to setup and simple to use cheap replacement for a landline phone that is not your primary means of telephone communication, lingo will not dissapoint.

at the first of the year, i may replace lingo with a more SIP/BYOD friendly provider like via talk so i can set up my own asterisk server, but so far i can't complain about lingo.

Wow I feel bad for you, Not only did you not read their terms and conditions, you allowed the lnp to go on for 60 days, Your not a very good customer. (:neutral:)

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I noticed the quality degradation mentioned above for configurations behind appliance routers. I did this for two reasons: 1) protection — I don't know what kind of security this device has built into it and I read some about VoIP hacking. 2) Video Chat doesn't work when it has to pass through that many gateways. I tried to do a video chat with a friend who has Lingo up front and it could not successfully find his client video chat session. He moved it behind his router and it worked as it has always done before.

So, there is a strong desire to protect my VoIP service and maintain my Vchat capabilities. My friend said that he initially had it in the same configuration but noticed DHCP hangups on the Lingo device after a few days. Once he moved it to the front, he didn't have a problem. He as thinking it was his Linksys router, but I experienced the same problem with my Netgear. So, I suspect it has something to do with the Lingo box. I check the website and found the default username and password (and promptly changed it). I didn't see anything about DHCP lease times (and nothing on the Netgear to extend or make permanent DHCP leases).

I haven't put my finger on the problem yet (specifically), but we have a number of data points here. I really don't want to have to power cycle my Lingo every few days to fix the hang-up problem. I haven't called tech support about it yet (and still 5 days away from number porting). I'm going to poke around a bit more, but if anyone else has anything to add on this, I'm interested.

Thanks!

I purchased account from lingo - somebody can advice how i configure asterisk to get calls via lingo (primus) account.
what sip gateway? what login/password (same for web)??

thanks

Somebody used Asterisk with Lingo service without without D-Link router?