[Cialug] VoIP

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I just got rid of my Qwest voice service, and have been totally wireless
with US Cell for almost 3 weeks. Its a weird feeling, but it seems to be
without issue.  Its weird to dump my home number that I've had for
almost 20 years...


:) Dave

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:05, Neal Daringer wrote:
> 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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