Engin Voice Box User reviews

By Alex Kidman on 15/12/2004

More Engin reviews , RRP: AU$149.00

The good:

  • Inexpensive phone calls
  • Simple enough to set up

The bad:

  • Reception awful if you're using your broadband connection heavily
  • Needs a new phone number
  • Lots of consumers won't have a router

The bottomline:

If you're a heavy phone user who can deal with having yet another home phone number, then Engin's voice box could save you serious money.

Buying choices:

Users' rating:

8/10

Tags:

calls | engin | phone | voice box | voice over ip | voip


08/03/2005, 06:35 PM

I like the savings

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08/03/2005, 06:32 PM

fantastic product, massive savings!

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distantbody
10/02/2005, 12:15 PM

dubious

i think that the $150 setup cost is ridiculous for a cheap plastic VoIP box. engin seems to be cashing in on the novelty of being the first VoIP provider in oz, so im going to wait until there is some actual competition to get a truly cheap VoIP service without all of those engin service reliability limitations and its other silly attached strings.

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Gigantor
08/02/2005, 01:40 PM

More power to them!

Great product! Let's hope they keep growing together with the whole VOIP market.

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timetorelax
31/12/2004, 09:13 AM

Great product and service

I have had engin for 2 months now and it has been great! With no problems with their network. My ADSL speed is 1.5Mpbs so I have no drop outs or missed packets even when using Xbox live and other internet appications. Also my fiance and I are not a heavy phone users (100 local calls, 1 hour mobile calls month) but the amount I saved paid for the Telstra line rental for my ADSL (I'm on the $18.50 budget plan) but started to pay off the initial engin voicebox costs.

Also during Xmas I took my voicebox to my parents place (who have optus cable) and we rang the UK plus other relatives without any problems plus people could contact me on my telephone number for the cost of a local call.

Once again, I highly recommend engin!

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23/12/2004, 06:50 AM

absolutely sensational, easy to use

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matteo
18/12/2004, 03:51 AM

Low call rates and great quality

I bought one and my phone bill has never been lower.

For instance $AUS GST inclusive:
o $0.69 - 13 min 48 sec call to fixed line in England.
o $3.79 - 7 min 44 sec call to Mobile in Italy.

OK, there is occasionally some packet loss (maybe 5 sec total during a 10 min call to England at worst) when on a phone call. Logically, if you are downloading at capacity there is no capacity for a phone call.

And for the audio quality freaks you can change from the default 8 kbit to 64 kbit encoding of the audio by phoning Engin support.

Yes, I am biased by the fact that I'm own a Engin Voice Box.

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