Hmm - Seems to me that if your broadband went down, it'd be hard to call anyone to have them fix it. it's still a tempting idea, but I think it means that your internet access slows down if you talk too fast... ;-) -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! snob at linuxsnob.com On 8 May 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> writes: > > > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 09:20 am, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > Check out Vonage.com. > > > <*SNIP*> > > > > > > I think I might dump my line at home for this thing. I'm sick of figuring > > > out long distance charges for my 3 roomies, and our phone bill is like $80 > > > a month now anyway. > > > > > > Jay > > > > After looking at their FAQ's.. they dont support 911 service (or many toll > > access numbers) yet. There is still room to grow with these.. so for > > everyone considering this, I wouldnt make it your exclusive phone line yet. > > Would be great if you needed addidional lines, though. But I can see this > > really taking off in the next few years. > > It seems to be over now, but for a couple of years most of my > consulting clients were in NYC; vonage would have let me set up an NYC > phone number, which would have "looked good". And I have a lot of > friends there through SF fandom. > > If I had money to play with I might get it just to screw around. > Hooking it up as a third phone line into the KSU and programming > outbound long distance calls to prefer it.... > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / Ghugle: the Fannish Ghod of Queries > John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net > Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ > Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >