[Cialug] VoIP

[Neal Daringer]

i live in iowa city. vonage has numbers in every state now except for montana,
wyoming, alaska, hawaii, idaho, and virginia(i think its virginia). as far as
what they have for where you can get a number in iowa they can give you a
number in the following areas:
ankeny, des moines, clinton, davenport, marshalltown, ottumwa, carter lake,
council bluffs, souix city, burlington, cedar falls, iowa city, cedar rapids,
waterloo, and waverly.

from what i could get out of their FAQ page there isn't much you can do with
VoIP when you have a connection under 1.5mbit. something about the duplex it
encodes at or something. probably keep looking into this stuff. just want to
tell qwest to go to hell since i haven't had a decent call on my home phone in
the last year and they won't fix it. i'd get rid of it all together but the
wife won't let me.



Quoting Jonathan Bailey <jcbailey@code0.net>:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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