[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

[Nathan C. Smith]

It's kind of silly that so many people in our group are throwing their money
at Vonage when we could do so some kind of a co-op thing with Asterisk.
There are several outbound services like nufone that let you keep an account
balance and bill it as you use the minutes, a much less expensive
proposition than Vonage.  We just need a provider like *cough*
Internetsolver who could provide inbound DIDs.

Tom, what has your experience with the IAXy been like?  I've had mixed
results with the one I've tried, using it in a DHCP environment.

Freese-notis is also busy exploring VOIP and hopes to terminate DIDs in the
future.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:45 AM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs



It's a shame that vonage aren't asterisk friendly on your first line.

In my house, I use a mix of grandstream budgetone phones 
(http://grandstream.com/y-bt100.htm) and Digium's iaxy's connected to 
normal phones (http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=iaxy) to talk to my 
asterisk pbx.

I've used VoicePulse's connect service (http://connect.voicepulse.com/) 
to get an inbound DID, but unfortunately, they don't have any Iowa 
numbers yet.

-Tom


On Apr 13, 2005, at 8:26 PM, n00b wrote:

> you can have 2 seperate lines on my adapter (linksys pap2). check the 
> configuration of whatever device you get as to how many lines it 
> supports.
>
> i have all the phones in my house on the same line on my pap2. this 
> was easy for me (sine i have cable). with cable, you just disconnect 
> qwests lines from your phone network terminal outside, getting rid of 
> any voltage that could be coming in from them, then plug a cord into 
> your phone adapter and the other end into a wall jack. any phone that 
> was on the same
> line as that jack should have dialtone. with dsl i'm not sure how 
> you'd do
> this same setup except for running new phone wires everywhere in your
> home. i use a cordless so its kinda like the benifit of wifi. no need 
> to
> run extra wires.
>
> hope this helps. if you want a more through explanation on how to do a 
> better setup look in vonages help pages.
>
> neal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Alan Maupin" <alan.maupin@mchsi.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:09:37 -0500
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs
>
>> Jon, -- how do I setup two phone's on Vonage, up and down stairs?
>>
>> I've been looking into getting Vonage to replace Quest phone service. 
>> At first glance it looks very good with all of the free options such 
>> as 3-way
>> calling and the email/phone integration.  The problem I've run into is
>> having a phone setup on the first and second floor of my home.
>> According to
>> the Vonage representative I can only use one broadband phone adapter
>> per
>> phone line since it involves the mac address of the phone adapter.  I
>> would
>> connect the phone adapter to my router upstairs and connect a phone to
>> it.
>> The problem is how do I connect my phone downstairs?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Bailey, Jonathan C
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:41 PM
>> To: cialug@cialug.org
>> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs
>>
>> If the DSL kept going out whenever your phone rings, that usually
>> means
>> you
>> aren't using filters.. Had that with a local business.. Embarassing
>> call to
>> tech support..
>>
>> As for VoIP, I'm switching to Vonage to keep my local number when I 
>> move. Just waiting to see if Qwest will switch me to standalone DSL 
>> or just disconnect me completely when the LNP is done.
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On
>> Behalf
>> Of Tim Perdue
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:37 PM
>> To: cialug@cialug.org
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs
>>
>>
>> timwilson011@mchsi.com wrote:
>>> Mediacom, basically because that's what I signed up with 4+ years
>> ago.  At
>> that
>>> time, DSL couldn't give the bandwidth cable could.  It still can't,
>> but it
>> is
>>> much better than it used to be.  I've been toying with the idea of
>> switching to
>>> DSL (and InternetSolver), but just haven't been pushed (read: pissed
>> off)
>> enough
>>> I guess.
>>>
>>> I wonder whatever happened to multiple ISPs on cable...
>>
>> I had really good luck with Mediacom for ~4 years, but switched to 
>> DSL (freese notis) so I could have a fixed IP and servers online. 
>> VOIP seems to be happier with DSL too. The cable modem network 
>> apparently has no UPS anywhere, as it is offline as soon as your 
>> house lights dim.
>>
>> DSL was going offline a lot whenever the phone would ring, but I 
>> finally just canceled the phone service and it works fine now.
>>
>> Tim
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