Re: VOIP -- PCTECH

Well, SBC is joining with AT&T, and I thoroughly despise AT&T.

Personally, I will quite likely go with http://www.sunrocket.com/ as
they are cheaper than Vonage: $199 a year with free hardware, no QOS
router requirement if you use their gizmo
(http://www.sunrocket.com/support/equipment/gizmo/).  Nice feature set
for the price.  I haven't done a straight-up side-by-side with Vonage
but SunRocket has all the features I'm ever likely to use.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:48 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] VOIP

I've been following this thread, and have a question: Is price the only
reason to go with Vonage?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] VOIP
> From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, February 09, 2006 11:26 am
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> At $26/month, why convince her? Valentine's Day is in a month or so  -

> surprise her.  Give her own phone number, with her mom's area code and

> exchange.  :)
> 
> Jeff Crosby wrote:
> >> I've not tried this (I have one cordless base and 4 cordless 
> >> recievers dispersed throughout the house), but I've been told that,

> >> once you've shut off your land line service, all you have to do is 
> >> plug the router into any wall phone jack and all the jacks in the 
> >> house are alive off the router.
> > 
> > This would be way cool.  And it seems logical.
> > 
> > I spent about 30 minutes late last night on Vonage web site.  I 
> > checked, and it said my home phone number was _not_ available for 
> > transfer.  I wonder is that's an error, that it's saying that 
> > because I have it?  I suppose I'll have to talk to them and ask.
> > 
> > Other than that, I really couldn't come up with a reason not to try
it.
> > Just have to convince my wife . . .
> > 
> 
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