[ale] OT: Speedfactory dropping USENET news

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:58 -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> James, I think you made my point.  It's best to avoid DSL if you want to use VOIP easily.

I would argue that the ease of VOIP use is dependent on the DSL
provider. As I am a Speakeasy customer, PPPoE is not spoken here so VOIP
is literally a plug-n-play operation.

For the multitudes using BellSouth or Earthlink DSL, they will need to
have a way to authenticate to the provider.

Cable modem users will also need a way to authenticate to their provider
as well. It's just that cable modem uses MAC address as authentication.
So a VOIP user will _still_ need a box to provide authentication to the
system.
> 
> Which makes perfect sense - the phone companies don't want their users to be able to use VOIP.  It would defeat their business model(s).  They wouldn't be able to charge 4 cents a minute for Long Distance.  The phone companies also make it clear that they are not ISPs because of the regulation issues; they also maintain that they are not 'content providers' either. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> CB
> 
> 
> 
> >Can you use a VOIP phone with DSL?
> 
> >Yes. Use a box that shares the line at the "head" and make sure the
> >required ports are open. i.e. one of the linksys DSL routers will work
> >as well as a Linux box firewall.
> >
> >Some of the VOIP boxes also may have pppoe capability built in thus
> >allowing them to be the first box in the DSL chain.
> >  
> >
> >>however, requires a username/password PPP kludge - which no VOIP phones 
> >>offer (without additional hardware: switches, administration overhead: 
> >>configuring multiple home routers, etc). 
> >>
> >>Just my .02 gold nugget shavings,
> >>-CB
> >>
> >>    
> >>
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