(OT) VoIP

[Lance Nichols]

Frank, I am running a VoIP gateway from Primus, assigned with a Edmonton phone 
number to help keep in touch with friends and family back in Edmonton. Works 
pretty good with my Rogers Cable connection and it is behind my Linksys 
router, just try to avoid too many other bandwidth eating things at the same 
time, such as VNCing to a dying computer owned by family while talking to 
them....

Disadvantages include: you can't use modems on VoIP, so if you have to remote 
to any systems via analog modem, keep an analog line. If you have a security 
alarm that is monitored remotely that will not work either, so you require a 
analog line for that as well.

That being said, I think Primus offers couple of good deals on DSL and VoIP if 
both are available in your area. If you want to drop analog completely, there 
might be savings by bundling DSL and VoIP from a provider.

Lance Nichols
Markham

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 22:20, Erebus wrote:
> Just a quick question for my fellow TLUGers:
>
> Has anyone switched over to VoIP yet? If so, how well does it work? I've
> been reading up on it and the costs (and their lowness) intrigue me, but
> don't want to switch if the quality will drive the Mrs insane.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank in Mississauga
> J F M
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