[TriLUG] Re: voip

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 13:32, Kevin Otte wrote:

> You can get some inexpensive new gear at places like
> http://www.sipphone.com/ and http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
> These adapters/phones come pre-configured for their respective services, but
> they could be easily reconfigured to use something you might put together.
> 
> I have only played with the software phones to date.  Perhaps if there were
> enough interest LUG-wide, we could get a volume discount on some of these
> devices.
> 
Be careful with getting low cost proprietary hardware devices built
specifically for one vendor. We have a customer that picked up some old
Vonage ATA's at a sweet price and found that the firmware was locked and
only accessible to Vonage personnel.

Jon