Any "best" VoIP solution?

And support?

Your question often only gets spammers so let's make this a link free zone.

Tell more.

That's the crux of the matter. My Ooma might not necessarily work like your Ooma, etc. My friend likes GV but I still prefer a more reliable system....

I suggest you peruse the many other threads that exist elsewhere which go into very gory details regarding setting up VoIP with specific providers/hardware/networks, and going from there. DSLreports.com IME has some very decent threads on this topic, FWIW.

Good luck.

Don't some just use Google Chat/Talk/or whatever it's called these day for VoIP and call it a day? Of course, that'd require keeping your computer on 24/7, which some do. So something like Ooma and the like are simply the same thing but with its own box acting as the computer go-between? What's the difference?

Power from wall plug, Ethernet connection to always on router, other connection to a splitter, one side of splitter to wall plug, the other to my Panasonic DECT6 4 phone system. The standard phones on wall plugs also work just fine. I had to cut the outside like to prevent grounding out though, which is a problem I'd had with POTS often before then. Best phone service I've ever had, clearest sound, no background noise. I'm on a fiber optic system to the house.

Downside is no phone during power outage without using a battery and inverter to power the modem/router and Magic Jack module. We have 3 cellphones for times like that though.

http://www.magicjack.com/magicJackGO.html