[ale] Vonage alternatives...

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I've use the Vonage box both inside and outside of the firewall (I 
surrendured my iptables firewall for a Linksys 802.11g router / wap). 
While it *did work* on the inside, it seems to work better on the 
outside.  When it's inside the firewall, I seem to have a better chance 
of getting echo or just bad line quality.
--
registered linux user # 73046


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Why does the vonage box need to be outside instead of inside?  I have
> packet8 and it is inside.  We've used the Linksys vonage box on the
> inside as well.
> 
> I will add that my firewall is Linux and when we used the Linksys the
> firewall was a Linksys 802.11G router. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:55, Ben Scherrey wrote:
> 
>>I've used it and its not bad but I need dial-in service as well. Skype 
>>doesn't yet offer that. Vonage is back up. Finally found out that they 
>>had some issue with outbound calls. Never got a description of why. 
>>Otherwise I've been pleased with their service and its been pretty 
>>reliable. Only trouble is I have NEVER talked to a human and their 
>>support just sucks when you need to contact someone. I was wanting to 
>>expand my service with them to three or four lines but no one returned 
>>my email! That just can't last long... so I'm still looking.
>>
>>    -- Ben Scherrey
>>
>>Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I tried them for a week and gave up on it.  Skype works good, but I
>>>haven't tried their SkypOut POTS service yet.  I've "heard" that it is
>>>better than Vonage, but that may or may not be valid.
>>>
>>>-Jim P.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>
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