[ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Fri Nov 13 09:14:57 EST 2015


On 11/12/2015 10:19 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Static vs. dynamic IPs are one thing but the VoIP is entirely another.
> I don't know if they would allow your own device for the ATA.  Many
> cable providers that I've used or experienced give out two boxes, one
> for the ethernet and one for the ATA (in one place I had an Arris for
> the ATA to run my phones and an SMC for the ethernet even though both
> boxes had dual functionality).

I skipped the Comcast voice package and run my own asterisk server.
With a wholesale pay-as-I-go plan, I average $10 - $15 /month.  The
trunk is good for up to ten (10) simultaneous calls.  I have cheap
Grandstream phones as extensions.



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