Reviewers Comments: HyperDog Digital was my second internet phone company. I had had my first
Internet phone company for more than four and half years before I switched to
HyperDog. The experience I had with HyperDog was very disappointing. I got
their router/adapter one week after I signed up on their website. I was with
them for about one month before I finally decided to leave. I had had problems
big and small since day one. Problems included
1. Their phone line could not detect my input after the line was
connected. This meant I could not reach anyone after I called a company if
their phone system requires an input from my keypad. I could not reach my
previous phone company to stop their service after the phone line was ported.
I could not check my voice mail. I could not do anything that required an input
from my phone keypad.
2. My connection was cut off after only around 47 seconds every time
for a period of time when I called my friends who were with a different internet
phone company. In another case, my other friends who are with my old
internet phone company could not reach me.
3. Their router/adapter could only be used as an adapter. My
computers had problem accessing the internet when their router/adapter was
used as a router.
4. Their caller ID only shows numbers but no names. Unless I
memorized the numbers, or people left messages, otherwise I could not know
who called me.
5. The message light would not blink when people did leave messages.
This meant I needed to call their message center every time just to know if
anyone had left messages.
These were only some of the persistent technical problems I had with them.
Some problems they did solve but came back. Their best tech person admitted
to me that for some of the problems, they did not have the technology to solve
them. I spent many hours everyday for the first almost two weeks with them to
solve problems. I did not have any of the problems while I was with my previous
internet phone company. I was able to use their router/adapter as a router
with the same modem, router and computers.
Technical problems were not the only problems I had with them. The waiting
time to talk to their tech support and billing department was very very long.
Ten, fifteen minutes wait was the norm. There were several times I had to wait
for more than thirty minutes before I could talk to someone or had to hang up.
I am normally a very patient person but even I reached my limit.
This company is a very small Canadian company with a very small staff. The
company?s name in Canada is Digital Voice. I know
at least one person who works at both the tech support and billing departments
because I reached the same person when calling for different departments.
Because this company is in a foreign country, my credit card company charged
me a 3% foreign transaction fee for the amount they |