[Cialug] VoIP

[Patrick]

What do you want to do with it???  With G.729 you can get encode rates down 
to under 10k.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Daringer" <admin@c0wzftp.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] VoIP


>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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