Ian,
check out engin (engin.com.au)
10 cent calls untimed, engin-engin free and mobiles have gone from 29cents
per minute to 27 cents per minute in the last couple of months.
Mark
have been using it at home for the last year.
So long as you have 80-100kb bandwidth free and a router that will give
priority for voice traffic you will be fine
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Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2006 11:04 PM
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Setting up new practice - To VoIP or not to
VoIP?
At 7:57 pm +1000 27/1/06, john dooley wrote:
>I disagree with Ian on costings.
Most telcos are on 15c local calls at business rates.
Internode's Nodephone is one of the few Voip (2?) providers that has
built infrastructure to support quality of service for qulaity VOIP
and their local calls are 18c. Long distance is cheap at 18c untimed
anywhere.
Do other providers that claim to offer cheaper voice calls on VOIP manage
QoS??
>
>If you DIY an asterisk box and have a chunky broadband plan I dont think
>Telstra is within cooee of the cheaper VOIP costs. with my voip provider
>there is no line rental, just $6/ month for the Direct in dial and the
>call costs. An asterisk box is $600 home grown with no support :P
>Asterisk could be as simple as apt-get asterisk, but is probably best
>done with SVN.
>
>If you buy off the rack or custom build (outsource) the costs scales
>become less clear.
>
>mind you, Im having trouble with DIY for unclear reasons at present
>(call quality)....even with premium connection, premium network gear and
>* server (dual PIII 1000 rackmount compaq). Something aint right and I
>cant figure it out yet...but I will....if it kills me....
Are you having problems with quality of service for real time voice??
Ian.
>
>Oh, David , did I mention im u/g to adsl 2....seeing as I can see the
>exchanges roof Im hoping something like 16megs+....now _that_ ought
>solve any bandwidth issues.
>
>:D
>
>JD
>
>David Guest wrote:
>> john dooley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The whole point is that VOIP local calls are substantially cheaper than
>>>PSTN local calls. Until Telstra falls I expect voip will always be
>>>cheaper not dearer
>>>
>>>eg 10c-12c untimed local calls is standard
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://www.telstra.com.au/phones/homeservices/plans_comparisons.htm
>> gives the cost for domestic use.
>>
>> What you get for business use depends on what deal you can get.
>> http://www.telstra.com.au/smallbusiness/fixedline/plans/compare.htm is a
>> baseline. None of the Telstra's plans are 10 cents per minute. Does
>> anybody here get near it?
>>
>> In the case of VoIP you have to add on the cost of the internet
>> connection and the bandwidth used. For nearly everybody on broadband
>> that would be at the margin.
>>
>> The numbers above are the reason that Telstra's such a hard sell.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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