My so-so Ooma setup experience Once I got past the cable tangles and setup woes, I found the Ooma phone system works well.

In this article, I'll take you through our Mark II setup, which we used for about 18 months. While the Ooma is certainly still a viable product, it's losing its integration with Google Voice.

This didn’t result in any apparent ill effects, either in ease of setup or in the quality of voice calls. (Either way, a well-illustrated Quick Start guide should make the physical Ooma set up ...

I set up my Ooma by plugging it into the Ethernet in my office and to a spare telephone. That was the extent of it. After a few moments of blinking, the Ooma box settled down, and I was able to ...

Setup was ridiculously easy -- a quick jaunt through an activation prompt on the Ooma website had our number picked, our E911 address assigned, and our adapter registered in under five minutes.

Now Ooma users can give the system a huge upgrade in the form of Ooma Home Security, which transforms the otherwise simple VoIP box into a surprisingly capable home security system.

According to the product literature, using the ooma mobile app, if I call another ooma phone, it's supposed to be free. That would make it ideal for calling up my wife, rather than using a cell.