[TriLUG] Looking for a good VOIP provider [was: New TimeWarner speed increase]

[Bill Farrow]

If your home phone usage is low, and you want to reduce your fixed
monthly expenses, then you should investigate the smaller VOIP
providers.

I am using Callcentric.com which has a fixed cost of about $4/mo and
various per minute rates for incoming and outgoing calls.  My monthly
phone bill is under $10.  Voice mail is free and is available via the
phone and/or email as mp3.

I use an unlocked Linksys PAP2-NA from ebay for ~$35, connected to my
ordinary panasonic cordless phones.

I recommend pinging the VOIP providers server to make sure the
latencies are low before signing up with them:
  ping ping.callcentric.com
  PING ping.callcentric.com (204.11.192.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from www.callcentric.com (204.11.192.10): icmp_seq=1
ttl=241 time=50.8 ms
  64 bytes from www.callcentric.com (204.11.192.10): icmp_seq=2
ttl=241 time=53.2 ms

Bill