Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Monday 12 December 2005 8:46 am, Paul Lussier wrote:

> I've been using Vonage since March over Comcast and had no
> Comcast-related problems.  For the first month things were great, then
> for abount 2 or 3 months things were really crappy and I was about to
> drop them completely and go back to Verizon.  Then things suddenly got
> better with no explanation.
When I switched to Comcast Digital Phone, my Verizon connection always had 
static. They even dispatched technicians on occasion, and I disconnected 
the entire in-house infrastructure to prove it was them. More recently a 
coworker with DSL had problems with Verizon where she was down for over 2 
weeks. She works from home, and had to commute for that period of time. 
Then, a friend of mine lost his entire phone system on a Thursday. A call 
to Verizon stated that they would not be able to fix it until the next 
Tuesday. (It was his entire condo building). Verizon kind of fixed it so he 
could dial out, but incoming calls would not ring. 2 weeks later he spoke 
to the Verizon President's secretary and finally got them to fix the 
problem. (Note that he lives across the street from the Verizon CO). Since 
he was already planning to get Comcast Internet, he also signed up for 
phone service (eg. VOIP). he has had no problems for the past month he has 
been on Comcast. 

WRT: Internet. Since Comcast took over from AT&T the Internet service has 
been very stable with virtually no outages or noticeable slowdowns. With 
ATTBI, we did have occasional network outages for short periods of time. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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