I love my Vonage. Here's my most expensive phone bill yet: International Calls for 1-(763)-XXX-XXXX (28/Nov-27/Dec) $17.20 Virtual Phone Number for 1-(601)-XXX-XXXX (28/Dec-27/Jan) $4.99 Premium Unlimited Plan for 1-(763)-XXX-XXXX (28/Dec-27/Jan) $24.99 FET Tax $1.42 Regulatory Recovery Fee $3.00 Total Amount $51.60 I'm paying 4.99/mo to keep my old Mississippi phone number. Paying less than $5 in robbery^H^H^H^H^H^H taxes.. They sent me all the hardware I needed, and I had no problems getting it up and running behind a LinkSys BEFSR41 router (I'll send you the port maps if you like, they're simple). I tell anyone I can get to listen to switch to Vonage, especially if you call long distance in the USA. I'll send you a coupon for a free month to give it a shot. Jim On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:20:32 -0600, Ben Bargabus <ben_b at ppdonline.com> wrote: > Sorry for the off topic post but I remember reading a bit about this at > some point and I'm fairly sure it was on this list. I'm getting a > little sick of my $120/month phone bills and was thinking about going to > Vonage to cut that back a bit. I seem to remember someone here posting > that you can have Qwest DSL without having Qwest phone service, is that > [still] true? Looking at my itemized bill from Qwest I have the > following items... > > Digital Subscriber Line Res - $14.95 > Qwest Choice DSL Dlx - $28.00 > Caller ID - $6.95 > Line-backer Inside Wire Repair Plan - $4.75 > Voice Messaging - $6.95 > Qwest.net Internet Services - $21.95 > [Misc local fees] - $13.52 > [Misc AT&T fees] - $10.79 > [long distance tax and surcharge] - $1.82 > > If I dump Qwest other than for my DSL connection do I just pay the > $28.00 Qwest DSL Dlx fee or do I still pay for the basic line fee too? > Does Vonage have similar taxes and access charges to Qwest or are they > truly $25/month out the door? Qwest.net doesn't do a thing for me as a > service provider so continuing to pay $21.95/month for them seems silly, > can someone recommend a good but cheap alternative for DSL access as an > ISP? I really don't need anything but the other end of my connection. > I don't care about static IPs, I don't need phone support, I don't need > web server space, I don't even need a POP account. The only things I'd > like are that they keep up with the 640kb I get from Qwest and that they > don't cap total transfer bandwidth over any period of time (not that I > really transfer that much but I don't want to have to worry about it). > > Vonage users, did you have to purchase any hardware to make the system > work? Did the hardware they provide (if any) just plug right into your > network hub/switch and run? Anything you wish you'd known ahead of time > that you can pass on to a potential customer? > > Again, sorry for being off topic. > Ben. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list