[ale] vonage service

[Klepinger, Aaron]

Bellsouth offers DSL without phone service in Georgia, as well, per Georgia
regulation.  I think it's like $10 more a month.  You can get pricing at
fastaccess.com, of course.  Also, the reviews on DSLReports.com give
Voicepulse the best rating.  Vonage is in the middle of the pack and
supposedly suffers from some voice quality issues for some people.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:27 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] vonage service


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:10, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Jim Philips wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:34 am, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Has anyone attempted connecting multiple telephones to an ip phone
>>>>service?  I'm thinking of replacing my current home line with an ip
>>>>service, but would like to have all the wired phones connected.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone have any experience with this?
>>>
>>>
>>>Oohh! This sounds like a golden opportunity to set up Asterisk, the open 
>>>source PBX.
>>
>>I just received my 'compatible' modem today!
> 
> 
> Details?!?!

Well, I don't have much.  Whenever the original post was made, there was 
a link to specific hardware modems.  So I thought.  Anyway, I ordered 
one.  Now looking at the asterisk page, I don't see references to such 
hardware.  I'm now trying to figure out why I purchased said modem. :)

Anyway, I've downloaded asterisk and will be building it shortly.


> 
> I'm looking at ditching HellSouth for phone. We have a new 6Mb/768kb
> "naked" DSL from Speakeasy arriving tomorrow. I've been looking at
> Vonage plus Asterisk plus some wiring and cell phones. Vonage already
> does a lot of what Astersk does (call forwarding, call transfer, pbx
> stuff), but Asterisk does a lot more. I'm also looking at the 4 port xo
> card from Asterisks sponsor company to provide basic analog phone
> service.

I'm going to look into naked dsl as well.  I've already dumped my 
business line for voip, and it is sweet.

Next I'll get another voip line and drop my current BellSouth service to 
the minimum just to support my dsl, until I can see about a naked dsl, 
hopefully over my existing unused business line.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey
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