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Here is what I have experience so far with the ooma setup. In one word: easy. I first had to register online before I hooked up the hub. That took 15 mins. Then I hooked up the hub. That took 15 mins, mainly it was just figuring out how to run the extra cables and where to plug the hub into. They then said it would take several minutes for the hub to be ready. That took several hours. There is an OOMA tab on the hub that lights up Red or Blue. Once it is Blue, that means it is good, but mine went from Red to Blue most of the first night. The next morning, it was Blue and I've never seen it Red again. I am wondering if there was some sort of update the hub needed and maybe that is why it took longer.
I hooked up the "Scout" next. You need a scout for every phone that is NOT part of an expandable system. For an expandable system, you hook the base into the OOMA Hub. The only problem with not hooking up a scout, you will not know if you have voice mail unless you go into the room that has the hub. In my case, that is upstairs. So I hooked the Scout up in the kitchen. That took 5 seconds. What you have to do is run a phone cord from the OOMA Hub to a wall jack. Then for the Scout, you hook the Scout to a phone jack. Then a phone to the Scout. The scout has a OOMA tab as well and it went Blue in 5 seconds. Both of the phones work. I have not hooked up my expandable system to the hub yet as I am waiting for the porting.
Now that I got it all setup and it seems to be working, I decided to do the porting. I had to call OOMA to do it. I waited for only 5 min for someone to pick up. It takes about 3 weeks, they said. Mainly because then have to send a permission letter that I have to sign and send back with a copy of my phone bill. You would think they could do this online somehow. Oh well. When the porting is done, they cancel your phone service and send you an email letting you know the porting is done. The porting cost a one time $40 fee, or if you sign up for their "premiere package"($100/yr or $13/month), the $40 porting fee is waived. So you can look at it as you are getting the premiere package for $60 for the first year. I did this. I am not sure if I will keep the premiere or not. You get a second line(I don't need one), a blacklist option(who cares with Caller ID), multiple ring tones(whippie) and call forwarding(this would be neat).
I have made a few calls and the quality is good. I would rate it as the same or better than a cell phone.
I have Comcast Cable Internet, 6 mb/s speed. I would recommed this product. I am not an employee of OOMA.

UPDATE: I sent in my porting request on 1/4/2009 through email. I just received an email(1/26) stating that my port will be completed by 1/29. YEA! So OOMA's 3-4 week estimate on porting is accurate. I can't wait to ditch the phone bill.Get more detail about ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills.