This is quite true regarding the reliability of your given service. There are some advantages as well. For example if you have wireless and say in an airport or some place where your cell phone doesn't have good coverage you could always use your VOIP enabled telephone. I most likely wouldn't go for it as my main means of communications but for example $20 a year is certainly fine for a secondary kind of a deal. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] VOIP Phones
>I know almost nothing about VOIP as well, but I do know that you do not > have to have cable specifically. You can do voip over DSL as well. > > A friend of mine had VOIP early on, and I told him to stop calling me > because the sound quality was so bad. Eventually, after several new cable > modems, visits from the cable guy, and a new line run from the pole to the > house, his sound quality now sounds as good as regular phone. > > Also, consider if your cable goes out on a regular basis. One location I > lived in, the cable would go out pretty regularly so if I had voip over > cable there, I would have been without a phone a lot of the time. Where I > currently live, cable has been pretty stable. > > As an aside, for those who have ditched there land lines completely for > cell, there are systems you can get that patch your cell into your home > phone so that you can come home, put your cell in a docking station, and > then use any phone in your house through the cell phone. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > ------------------------------------ > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > >
