[Cialug]voip

[jaybabel at mchsi.com]

When Mediacom tried selling it to me I told them I had no interest in VOIP and the rep indicated there was a distinction between VOIP and broadband phone service.  Didn't matter to me.  I want a POTS line for reliability.  I've lost cable and electricity over the past 25+ years a lot more often than I've lost my POTS.  If you don't have electricity you can't power a cable modem and you can't charge a cell phone battery.


-------------- Original message from neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com>: -------------- 


> maybe what i said about not being ip was wrong (in a sense). from what i 
> understand, from reading mediacom tech posts on broadbandreports is that 
> their ATA's work on a seperate network than the internet service do. 
> i.e. ITT when you hook it up to the cable modem it pulls a different IP 
> address altogether than the public ip you have for internet access. 
> 
> at least thats what i understand from what the tech says. i wont get it 
> b/c mediacom doesnt have half the features that vonage has. although im 
> still looking for the call block feature where i can block individual 
> numbers. if i ever get around to it, i'd just get some ip phones and 
> start using my pbx and block callers that way. 
> 
> Jeffrey Ollie wrote: 
> > On 12/5/07, jrnosee at gmail.com wrote: 
> > 
> >> Are you sure about it not being VOIP? I've seen the device, it looks like 
> >> it would be a cable modem + sip adapter. 
> >> 
> > 
> > Anyone have one of their modems handy? It should be fairly easy to 
> > Google the cable modem model number to find out some more information 
> > about it. 
> > 
> > Jeff 
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