[Cialug] VoIP

[Neal Daringer]

sometimes i wonder what i'd do w/o this mailing list.



Quoting Dave Weis <djweis@internetsolver.com>:

>
>
> 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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