[TriLUG] VOIP Providers

[Matt Pusateri]

Be careful of using a voip provider as your main number.  We had an 
issue @work where we had a voip line and later wanted to move it back to 
Bellsouth.  Bellsouth could not or would not port the number over.

Matt P.

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Wow. I had to let this marinate for a few minutes after I read the
> article. A few questions based off this:
>
> - Does anyone do something like this at home now?
> - Who's your ISP?
> - Do you have any bandwidth issues? (I'm a huge fan of downloading
> ....just for the sake of downloading).
>
> ...I have a huge project for myself once I've moved into my new house
> (around the end of this month). I have this ultimate plan of digitizing
> everything as much as humanly possible... 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Ron Joffe
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:04 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VOIP Providers
>
> Vitelity.com
>
> Very easy to set up, and they provide the asterisk configuration for
> you. I would recommend utilizing iax versus sip for easier nat, and
> firewall traversal.
>
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 11:25, Chess Griffin wrote:
>   
>> I am not that knowledgable about voip and sip stuff, but this 
>> discussion of voip and asterisk leads me to a question:  what voip 
>> providers are people using?  Are there any recommendations for 
>> providers that are friendly to those that want to use asterisk or a
>>     
> softphone like Ekiga?
>   
>> Thanks-
>> Chess
>>