Well maybe I'm wrong Dustin, (and if I am then please correct me) but if you're using COX for your regular phone lines then surely you are using VOIP - it just that it's the COX VOIP box.
This is what we have - two modems, one for Internet access and a second with four POTS connections into our PBX - both are conencted via a splitter into the cable line with 1500/400 Internet service. COX came out yesterday, poked around and told me that, "It's up the pole" and that they would be back on Wednesday... Edmund Cramp -- My father warned me about men and booze but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine. -- Tallulah Bankhead -----Original Message----- From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:57 PM To: general at brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] COX VOIP FYI & comments anyone? We use Cox for our normal phone lines at the office. No VOIP yet though because I was worried about reliability. Looks like I made the right call. Ha! The right call! HAHA! Uh.. nevermind, moving along. On another note, we bought a TalkSwitch 480vs recently and it ROCKS. I think Ronnie and Steven will back me up on this. (Uh, back me up guys.) http://www.talkswitch.com/products/talkswitch_480vs.asp Oh, and it will support end-to-end VOIP and remote extensions via VOIP whenever we want to use that feature. -- Puryear IT, LLC Identity Management, Directory Services, Systems Integration Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 * http://www.puryear-it.com "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Edmund Cramp wrote: > Just wondering if anyone in the LUG has any ideas or comments on this. > > We have COX business VOIP and Internet service - and we've noticed several > times now that we have days when the phones are very quiet - hardly anyone > calls and when the phone dos ring it is usually a disconnect as soon as we > pickup. > > When we called COX the first time they "looked" at the system remotely and > told us that the "levels are too high" and sent someone out here to plug an > attenuator in series with the modem. It's happening again today - and > someone from COX is supposed to be coming out here again to "adjust the > levels" ... > > Does anyone actually know what the problem is? While I like the COX service > overall - well, except that it's expensive for what you get as a business - > I'm concerned that if the phone service can appear to be working but then > turn out not to be ... it's not too good for business. > > We never had this much trouble with POTS... > > Regards, > Edmund Cramp > -- > Sales Support > Motion Lab Systems, Inc. > 15045 Old Hammond Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 USA > Tel: +1 (225) 272-7364 > Fax: +1 (225) 272-7336 > Web: http://www.motion-labs.com > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
