Hi Everyone, My wife wants to save some money and get digital phone service. We are currently paying about $50 per month to BellSouth for local phone and a few dollars a month to Quest for what little long distance we use. My wife and daughter are using virgin Mobile for there cell phones (which they plan to keep). We have roadrunner cable / broadband. I have a coyote linux firewall feeding into network hubs feeding every room with internet (windows boxes for wife/kids and linux boxes in my computer room).
The time warner digital phone service is $39 per month for unlimited calls but that does not seem to be the best deal. Vonage has a $25 per month plan for unlimited calls that we are considering. But the box they show has 2 phone jacks on it. I can't figure out if I can just run a phone cord from one of those jacks into a phone plug in my wall to make all of my current phones work or would I be limited to plugging 2 phones into the 2 jacks on the box I would get from vonage. Since I have a wife and 3 kids and 8 phones in the house that does not sound very appealing. I would ultimately like to get a card to put into a computer and have a linux box running asterisk that can do all the cool stuff that would enable but my wife is tired of waiting for me to figure out all the stuff that would require and I don't have any time for that right now. I plan to do that at some point but I am thinking about doing vonage or something just to try it out for now. So does anybody have any suggestions on what company to use or warnings about what to avoid? Does anybody have their digital phone plugged into the house phone wiring to make all the regular phones in your house work? Thanks Barry Gaskins -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
