[Cialug] VoIP

[Jonathan Bailey]

Vonage does have DSM area numbers. I believe they are out for DSM 
proper, but they have Ankeny. They also have Ames numbers.



Jon

Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>I had vonage for two years, it will only save you money if you actually use
>it.  My wife complained about the call quality (both on ADSL 144k and T1) so
>I finally cancelled it.  Since I started playing with Asterisk I've used
>nufone Voipjet and a few others.  There is a lot more savings to be had with
>a prepaid plan like these if you are only dialing out.  Vonage didn't have
>DIDs in Iowa last I checked (4 months ago) so you can't have a local number.
>We will be/are one of the last states to get local numbers.
>
>If you do a lot of LD calling you might be able to get your money's worth
>from Vonage, but I think there is going to be a big VOIP shake-up in the
>future when some of the other companies start playing VOIP and we will start
>to see some really cheap calling.  As long as the FCC stays out of it.  
>
>My advice is to skip Vonage and either use Asterisk or wait for something
>better.  BTW, a service called Bellster now offers free p2p asterisk to PSTN
>calling over the Internet.  I used it last night and thought it was OK.  It
>is new as of Friday and there may still be issues with it.
>
>-Nate
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Neal Daringer [mailto:admin@c0wzftp.com] 
>Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:33 AM
>To: cialug@cialug.org
>Subject: [Cialug] VoIP
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>
>any of you have experience with VoIP telephone companies (i.e. packet8,
>vonage, etc.)? just wondering if it would actually be worth checking out to
>save $ on the phone bill.
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