On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:41 pm, Alan wrote: : Linux Rocks! wrote: : > Alan, : > If you find a solution, please let us know.... Ive dealt with : > qwest/uswest for a long time, but not for a few years now. I hate them. : > Ive had awful problems in the past with them. Ive found that if you go : > with other local providers that it just ends up costing more so that : > qwest can still get thier cut. Im currently using a cell phone for my : > regular phone. : > : > Jamie : : Yeah, I've looked at cell phones, but for my household, they don't make : economical sense, mainly because I'd need two and that pushes the cost : far above what I give Qwest. And while the main motivation for this is : to avoid giving Qwest any of my money, giving twice the amount to : someone else doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
I have cricket, it cost less than i was giving qwest/uswest, or the other local providers... but cell phones are annoying... I put up with the inconvenience of cell phone, rather than pay qwest. Jamie : : I did some research last night into this: : The plan I cooked up was Vonage over whoever is that does WISP in : Eugene(willamette.net, I think). : The downsides to Vonage are mainly the lack of 541 numbers. This isn't a : huge concern for me, since I don't know anyone in town that would call : me anyway. heh. An upside is that I could get an 845(NY) number which : would enable both our parents to call us "locally". : And for most people we know, calling a 503(1?) Portland number is just : as LD as calling an 845 NY number. : : The WISP is a bigger problem, since if the hills I think are the Coburg : hills are, in fact, the Coburg hills, I don't have LOS to them. : This lead me to Comcast, the folks who want $15 more for worse upstream : than I get from Qwest. : From there, I went to Speakeasy. Their online service app told me I : could only qualify for IDSL, which I find odd, since I'm using ADSL from : Qwest right now. I'll have to give them a call later, but if anyone is : using them in Eugene right now, speak up. : : I've looked at Skype, but since most of our calls are incoming, I don't : think it will fit the bill for what we need. : : : That's the run-down so far, if anyone has any additional ideas, : suggestions, etc, do chime in. : : -ajb : _______________________________________________ : EUGLUG mailing list : euglug@euglug.org : http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug -- Let's call it an accidental feature. -- Larry Wall _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug