Verizon "Home Connect" service

charlysmom&dad wrote:
Since this works on cell service, do you still have wifi, for your computer, in your home?
I've thought about getting rid of my home phone, but I still need the lines coming in to my home for wifi. Phone company would charge more for just wifi, without phone service, so I just keep things as is.

We use a Verizon MiFi at home and on the road. One bad thing about the Home Phone Connect is you cannot use it for digital services such as hooking to your satellite service or Life Alert.

The Verizon Home Connect does work with a Sensaphone 800 Monitoring System.

charlysmom&dad wrote:
Since this works on cell service, do you still have wifi, for your computer, in your home?
I've thought about getting rid of my home phone, but I still need the lines coming in to my home for wifi. Phone company would charge more for just wifi, without phone service, so I just keep things as is.

Wifi has nothing to do with it. You most likely have DSL from the phone company. Wifi is how your computer or tablet connects to your router, the router is connected to the internet (in your case) by DSL. Since your phone line is used for both your phone service and internet, it makes sense for you to keep your landline.

MrWizard wrote:
the home connect
is a cellular system for the home
you can use any residential phone even cordless base,
what you can't do, is stick in your pocket and go out to dinner

it replaces a landline, and you can use in the RV, even when you change locations
it will not replace the cellphone you carry when you leave home
and goto the mall the swap meet, or out to dinner

True, it is not a portable cell phone you can carry in your pocket. Hence we do also have a prepaid trac phone we carry for emergency contact. The DW mother is 92 and lives in New Zealand so the trac phone is always on and with us, and the folks there know the number.

We used the switch to Home Connect to drop the two phone lines into the house, one line for general use, one for dialup internet. Was costing $80 a month. Now we have dish hispeed, $50 a month at home, and $20 for the Home connect which we now can carry in the RV. Pretty easy decision.

We also use the Verizon Jetpack for mobile internet when traveling, $50 a month and suspend the service when not traveling. It gets signal where cell phones do not. Recently at a SD park, my friends both with the latest cell phones were gathered at our picnic table catching up on things using our jetpack wifi since they could not get a signal.

charlysmom&dad wrote:
Since this works on cell service, do you still have wifi, for your computer, in your home?
I've thought about getting rid of my home phone, but I still need the lines coming in to my home for wifi. Phone company would charge more for just wifi, without phone service, so I just keep things as is.

No..This cannot be used for internet for the computer or any device
This does not provide any kind of internet access

We did not realize when we were sold the service that it relies on 4G which is marginal at our house. We lost our land line and it took more than 2 weeks to get it redone and be able to get calls at our house.

Better to simply use your cell phone and not put all your eggs into one basket.

wintersun wrote:
We did not realize when we were sold the service that it relies on 4G which is marginal at our house. We lost our land line and it took more than 2 weeks to get it redone and be able to get calls at our house.

Better to simply use your cell phone and not put all your eggs into one basket.

Home Connect does not require 4G services .

strollin wrote:

charlysmom&dad wrote:
Since this works on cell service, do you still have wifi, for your computer, in your home?
I've thought about getting rid of my home phone, but I still need the lines coming in to my home for wifi. Phone company would charge more for just wifi, without phone service, so I just keep things as is.

Wifi has nothing to do with it. You most likely have DSL from the phone company. Wifi is how your computer or tablet connects to your router, the router is connected to the internet (in your case) by DSL. Since your phone line is used for both your phone service and internet, it makes sense for you to keep your landline.

Lots of assumptions being made that everyone looks exactly like you. We have a WiFi router and has been connected to the internet via Wifi connection to a Verizon mifi 4G device. It costs us $180 per month for our two 20GB data plans. We will be switching that next week to an unlimited data at $256 a month using a T-1 land line with our new Cisco 1921 $1000 router. Then the T-1 will go to the Cisco router and from there to the Cradlepoint wireless router with a Cat 5e cable and from there using Wifi 802.11n to our laptops and our television set.

We got royally burned a year ago when we were sold on the Verizon home service and were not told that it required a 4G signal strong enough for the base station to connect. We had no connection at our house and it took 2 full weeks to get our POTS land line service re-established. So no phone service, land line or wireless, for that period of time.

Friends had the same disaster when they signed up for AT&T's Universe service a week ago and then AT&T disconnected their land line service and then the AT&T Universe people told them that actually their neighborhood did not have the service available. They were told by the local AT&T POTS people that it would take 28 days to get their land line service established again and they run a business out of their home.

Buyer beware does not being to describe the dysfunctional communications and phone service environment in the USA. We resemble a third world country in this area in the same way we do with our antiquated mass transit and train infrastructure or lack thereof.