Well thanks for you thoughts and helpful contacts Thinus. Our daughter lives in Turner ACT so our paths may cross sometime. Where is your house?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thinus van Rensburg Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 9:47 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? I've been away from the RSA for nearly 8 years and have lost pretty much all of my professional contacts over there. Talk to Christo in Cootamundra - he may know. Other possible resources would be Erwin Moore who works at Kapoonga (The army base - I may be misspelling it)-he also works with the Mischrecky couple as a GP in Wagga - his wife, Annelise, works for Recruit-a-Doc who brought us to Australia and I'm sure should could offer options (at a fee of course) There is also a new RSA doc in Wagga ED - Andrew Cumberlidge if I recall correctly. He only came over in 2005 and his networking would be a lot more current than mine T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr John Van Dyck Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 9:24 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? Good luck with it all. Do you have any RSA friends or acquaintances who might be interested next year? They could walk into a friendly situation and take over etc The other 2 South African families would welcome them and help supervise etc if that was necessary. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thinus van Rensburg Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 9:19 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? Thanks John - the thought did cross my mind. Fact is that we really enjoy Canberra - the kids have lots of various sport and other activities and Riana and I are slowly working towards only an 8-6 work day. We have actually started to eat right, do regular exercise, etc. som maybe I won't have my first MI at 48y like my dad did. We are moving into our own house in 2 weeks as well so we will be well and truly in debt but have a life. T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr John Van Dyck Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 9:03 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? Shame Thinus, you could have walked in her with your wife only 1 1/2 hours from Canberra and taken over the whole setup, patients, income, infrastructure, computers, as much or little procedural work as you desire, hospital or not, 2 other South African Docs and families with young children in town, wonderful lifestyle, abundant income, one night on call/week etc etc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thinus van Rensburg Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 8:51 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? Will let you know - I first need to know if the HIC will give us provder numbers ( we still fall under the 10 year moratorium) and can then give the Developer the go ahead for the Fitting out of the rooms - that will take at least 2 months. T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Guest Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 8:18 AM To: OzdocIT Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to VoIP? Thinus van Rensburg wrote: >Any suggestions on the PBX? > > Hi Thinus I have no knowledge or experience of PABXs except when I peer into the motherboard of our 9 year old Samsung system I can see a 286 processor. That is to say, when the PABX was first installed they were using 10 year old technology. However, all our slots in the board were used up by our last extension 18 months ago and I am in the market for a new system. After sitting in the whirlpool (e.g. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=438869) for a while there seems to me to be four broad alternatives:- 1. Stick with PSTN but run some outgoing lines through VoIP as per Tony's suggestion. This is least cost and least risk. 2. Get a standard PABX solution but query the dealers about what VoIP options their systems have. I gather these are fairly standard add-ons for the likes of Ericsson, Nortel, Alcatel, etc. 3. Go the whole hog with VoIP everywhere. You could do this yourself (which would be high risk and potentially high maintenance) or get a VoIP specialist to do it. (I'd query sensis.com.au for voip or pabx in your city for suppliers.) The VoIP guy I spoke with in Brisbane 18 months ago was high tech and high cost but the market has matured a fair bit in the last six months and prices should be more reasonable. 4. Forget completely about VoIP and screw the phone company for a deal that gives you less than 10 cents per local call (which is the amount you'll pay from most of the VoIP providers). This option is probably only achievable for larger businesses. If you are getting ADSL2+ QoS should not be too great a problem. You will still need QoS traffic shaping but your internet connection will probably run faster than parts of my LAN. I'd be interested to hear how you go with this if only for purely selfish personal financial benefit. Cheers. David -- "UFW. Deb does linux." 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