T1 through the power company...i assume they have bought up some of the
trunk lines and are not offering this through BPL right?
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: voice over IP report


> you're lucky, we had Comcast digital phone for a while and they really
> offered us a good deal, then they turned around and got us real bad on the
> bill and now, all I have them for is internet and when I get in touch with
> the local power company about the T1 connections they offer in homes for
the
> same price, I'll never have anything to do with Comcast again. I have
vonage
> on my private line and it works fine for me, was with voicewing and still
> trying to get the number transferred over but other than that, it was
> alright but now and then no one could hear me and I had to hang up and
call
> back, but with vonage I don't have that problem and we may very well get
rid
> of the main phone company and just use my vonage line for the hole house
> down the road since it's a lot cheaper.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 10:49 PM
> Subject: voice over IP report
>
>
> Hi Phil:
> Saw your messages on here and on blind-ad as well...
> anyway, i switched to digital phone service back in june of last year.
> I am not completely sure if this is considered a VOIP service or not since
> it isn't installed the same as your typical voip box...basically there is
a
> separate phone modem as they call it, very similar in size and no doubt
> operability to the regular high speed internet modem. They install it
> usually in the basement or where ever your main phone line comes into the
> residence.  They connect it directly to the junction box so that all you
do
> is just leave your phones connected to their jacks in the house.
> This particular service is offered through the local high speed internet,
> cable TV and now digital phone service company...it all runs on the coax
> cable originally designed for a TV signal that comes into the house.
> They use no loss splitters to separate the phone modem line, the internet
> line and the cable TV lines at the spot where the main cable comes in...
> anyway, as i said, i am not quite sure if this would still be considered a
> Voice over IP service or not.  The audio quality is better then land line,
> and i am extremely picky about audio.  Its louder then regular landline
> service, however you do get the echo you were refering to sometimes if you
> yell at a telemarketer too loudly.  Also, i find on average on long
distance
> phone calls, there is less noise on the line compared to tradditional land
> lines.  This said though, about once in every 200 phone calls, there is
some
> kind of packet loss and one must hang up and redial to fix it...but it
never
> happens in the middle of a conversation, its either there from the
> beginning, or not there at all...and only very seldom at that.
> The reason we switched was primarily the extreme lower cost of the service
> compared to the local telephone provider...we found similar differences as
> you did, almost half of the cost from the local telephone provider, and
more
> then double the options included in the basic package....not to mention
> unlimited calling in north america.
> Also, another plus in our situation was just one bill for cable tv, high
> speed internet and telephone.
> No more guessing as to how much the long distance phone bill was going to
be
> and no more paying for star 69 or call waiting or voice mail or any of the
> other more then 10 options that were included...which the phone company
> charges around 7 dollars each for.
> Oh, and 411 directory assistance was free with the package, we didn't have
> to fill out paper work and send it in to the company explaining why we
> should be most generously granted free 411 privilages...
> We did check out primess and found that their offers weren't as good as
the
> local guys.  Not only that, people who we know that use primess found the
> same as you did with regards to the audio quality sounding compressed and
> just a little shy of an average sell phone.
> I absolutely detest what they have done to sell phone audio and refused to
> have that kind of audio quality on my line, not to mention subjecting
others
> to the same suffering.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>