[Cialug] VoIP

[Dave Weis]

Neal Daringer wrote:
> 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.

You forgot the magic three letters, IUB

http://www.state.ia.us/iub/

dave


> 
> 
> 
> 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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