[Cialug] VoIP

[Neal Daringer]

astrix and these other encoding things don't get rid of my qwest line 
though or
lower my bill(the biggest thing i'm going for). i hate paying for service i
hardly use. i would get the prepay plans but i still need the incoming calls.

those that have or had vonage what taxes do you pay (not how much just which
taxes)? if any.


Quoting Patrick <patrick@patrickian.com>:

> 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
>
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>> 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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