Vonage-like VoIP services w/soft phone?

Just curious, are there any Vonage-like VoIP services which will allow
me to use a Cisco ATA-186 (or something similar) when I'm at home, but
use a soft phone on my laptop when I'm away?

I'm currently using Vonage, relatively happy, but the closest I can come
is to purchase their soft phone, use up a separate bank of minutes (So I
can have leftover minutes on one and get billed on the other) and rely
on call-forwarding to get my incoming calls -- No thanks, I'd like to
just turn off the ATA and/or turn on the soft phone.

Anything like that out in the market yet?

For whatever it's worth, I live in Alberta Canada, work for a company in
Dallas TX, can ship product and/or pay for product from either location.
Local numbers in either area preferred, but I'll consider anything.

 

I don't know about what you are looking about, but you can pull off the same
effect with a second ATA and FXS/FXO adapter and something like freeworld
dialup.

Setup two FWD accounts. Buy a cheap second ATA like a grandstream ata 286.
Connect it to the FXO/FXS converter and connect the adapter to your vonage
account. Set it for a two way forward. When a call comes in on Vonage it
will forward to your FWD account. You can program your FWD account to
automatically call your ATA, punch in a PIN, and you have your Vonage
dialtone.

Stu

 

In message <<6jaQb.33320$P%>>

I was hoping to find a one-step "service" that offers this, rather then
cooking something myself. If I'm going to build a custom solution of my
own, I'll probably invest and build us an internal PBX in the process,
but I'm not quite ready for that yet.

 

No one offers unlimited on a softphone. I connect here
(www.iconnecthere.com) offers some decent bucket minute packages for
softphones.

Stu