It is not $99? What does their 3-way "$99" package come to with taxes &
fees, anyway?
And what is the [current] cost of their business service?
I hope these questions are appropriate for the thread & the list...
~ben
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, BB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank for getting back to me, I finally got the REAL price for Comcast
> service, forget it! I'm looking into other options, probably DSL, who
> knows I may crawl under the Dial-up rock :-o
>
> On 5/20/08, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My VoIP keeps working when the local power goes out, so long as my UPS
> holds
> > up my networking equipment.
> > I am registered with E911 as well, and they called me back since my
> street
> > address does not map well and they confirmed my physical home's location
> > beyond my satisfaction (although thankfully I've never had to use the
> > service yet, knock wood).
> > So what else was missing or less-than-optimal with "normal" VoIP? I have
> a
> > strong distaste for comcast's sideband implementation -- obviously it is
> a
> > good engineering choice for them, and also serves the vast majority of
> the
> > userland market... but I wanted a VoIP service I could use flexibly,
> > re-route and reconfigure as I saw fit.... as a geek. I *also* wanted
> > something I could use out of the box, something reliable and not subject
> to
> > the mere whims of my late-night software reconfigurations.
> >
> > I have only had two or three minor instances of call quality degradation
> > over the two years of service I've gotten, and my provider [ViaTalk] is
> also
> > asterisk-friendly and will allow flexible end-user options like
> ring-through
> > to a soft-phone while traveling, and so forth. I'd love to get a
> referral
> > if anyone is going to sign up with ViaTalk, please contact me off-list.
> > They have a free year deal for new customers which is quite a bargain.
> They
> > ship a LinkSys Phone adaptor pre-configured, so you only need plug it
> into
> > your LAN and your POTS phone when it arrives :)
> > There are a lot of other providers out there, and most of my info is
> about 2
> > years old since dropped my qworst line then, and have beenb happily
> humming
> > along ever since.
> > I do remember seeing a fairly volatile VoIP market then, and suspect that
> a
> > big risk with any of many smaller providers is *still* whether they'll be
> > staying in business... so, points for Comcast and Skype there...
> >
> > Skype makes all the people I've suggested it to very happy, although it
> > seems a bit inter-webby to me; however I've read a few interesting bits
> > about plugins and re-routing of calls -- looks much easier than even the
> > bootable gui'ed pbx/telephony distros, although 'doze-centric on the
> > extensibility end when I had looked (~2 yrs ago?).
> > For a lot of ("most") computer desktop users, the type of folks who have
> a
> > cellphone and either miss their home phone or want to ditch it, I think
> > Skype with the $25/yr SkypeOut service is a good fit for the low-end...
> they
> > can call out to save their cell-plan minutes and/or for discounted
> > international, and if they can learn to travel with a thumb drive and
> > headset (I also plug portable firefox a lot).
> >
> > ~ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:38 PM, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM, wes morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I have had the phone/internet/cable bundle for about 2 1/2 years and
> no
> >> > problems.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Ditto for approximately the same amount of time, although I recall
> >> some minor glitches when their Eugene area phone service was new. It
> >> seems to be pretty stable now.
> >>
> >> The big advantages of Comcast telephony or a traditional POTS over
> >> VOIP telephony are that that service (hopefully) doesn't go down when
> >> the local electrical power system goes out and the 911 service is way
> >> better, e.g., an open line can be quickly traced to a street address.
> >>
> >> As I understand the situation, VOIP can still leave you in the lurch
> >> when you need it most, a deciding factor for one who has reached the
> >> stage of his life when the ability to rapidly summon ambulance service
> >> at any time is an important consideration.
> >>
> >> I've tried Skype, but found it frustrating because of fluctuating
> >> volume and rapid decay of audio when a friend in Germany I frequently
> >> need to work with is patched into a 3-way or larger number of
> >> participating nodes. I have no idea whether such problems are common
> >> to VOIP in general, but I decided that email or chat were far less
> >> frustrating to me for such purposes. .
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Marbux
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