[AFMUG] Charging for VoIP TF Calling

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Burke
Just curious how others are handling charging customers for Toll Free VoIP Service. Obviously dependent on size (a couple of our radio station customers use $100's per month of TF, and are charged appropriately) For the average Small business. Do you include X number of TF minutes with the

Re: [AFMUG] Charging for VoIP TF Calling

2019-11-07 Thread Adam Moffett
I don't know about weird routing. We had our outbound CID set to our toll free for many years.  There was no technical problem that I ever noticed.  We changed that to a local number only because nobody will answer calls from toll free numbers in this age of robodialer spam. I always did flat

[AFMUG] Cambium Out-of-warranty repairs, PDMnet?

2019-11-07 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Is PDMnet still doing out of warranty repairs on Cambium? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Charging for VoIP TF Calling

2019-11-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
In the PSTN world, I think inbound toll free is always measured service. I know Windstream charges us per minute for every call. Maybe there is flat rate toll free service available, but I've never heard of it. And I agree about people ignoring calls with a toll free number for caller ID. And

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Out-of-warranty repairs, PDMnet?

2019-11-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
Cambium’s official repair service is in Florida but I don’t think it’s PDMnet anymore. That doesn’t really answer your question though. It may depend also on what product. It’s one thing to have the parts, schematics and equipment to repair an SM or router, it’s another to work on something l

[AFMUG] Mikrotik firewall performance

2019-11-07 Thread Adam Moffett
Is it more expensive to have a layer7 content match, or match source IP's against an address list with 8000 entries?  I can do either one of these with one rule. I could go to the Mikrotik forum, but then I'd have to wade through all the dumb chatter whereas I know the smart people live here a

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage

2019-11-07 Thread Steve Jones
this got me when i was kid and built a wire coil magnetizer. I burned up my model train power supply. the little details like enamel coating are what get you. I spent so many hours perfectly winding that coil too. I can never have that time back. i think that may be the point in life that i became

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage

2019-11-07 Thread Adam Moffett
Wouldn't your weapon also pull the nails out of walls and thereby collapse all the buildings? On 11/7/2019 2:00 PM, Steve Jones wrote: this got me when i was kid and built a wire coil magnetizer. I burned up my model train power supply. the little details like enamel coating are what get you.

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage

2019-11-07 Thread Steve Jones
nope, wouldnt be enough travel to have any notable effect with the amoutn of ferrous mass on that, but would perforate cell walls On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > Wouldn't your weapon also pull the nails out of walls and thereby collapse > all the buildings? > > > On 11/7/201

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage

2019-11-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
Steve = Magneto ? From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 1:07 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage nope, wouldnt be enough travel to have any notable effect with the amoutn of ferrous mass on that, but would p

[AFMUG] Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread Adam Moffett
What's the proper term for a device that will take over a phone line if the phone connected to it picks up? Like the device they use to put an elevator emergency phone onto the fax line. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread chuck
Oh, geeze I remember how they worked line isolator? Exclusion something. Privacy adapter. Something like that. Line excluder? Exclusion device. Automatic exclusion. Seems like the word exclusion was in there. Google it and you will probably find one. There are also line sharing de

[AFMUG] Fw: Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread chuck
Line Exclusion device. I found a few online. I remember putting one on the hall phone at a school. It was on one of the main lines of the school. The kids could use the hall phone unless someone in the office was using that line. Saved them from buying another line. -Original Message

Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread Ken Hohhof
I thought maybe he was talking about a PLAR, but you're probably right. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:14 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Fw: Old phone guy question Line Exclusion device. I found a few online. I remem

Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread Adam Moffett
From the verbal description I got, it sounds more like the "Priority line grabber" about 1/3 of the way down this page: http://www.sandman.com/lineshar.html I didn't realize how many varieties of such a thing there might be.I guess I'll have to get eyes on it. On 11/7/2019 5:18 PM, Ken

Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Old phone guy question

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Burke
What are you trying to accomplish? My Alarm panel has this built in if you wire the POTS line to it before anything else. On 11/7/2019 4:25 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: From the verbal description I got, it sounds more like the "Priority line grabber" about 1/3 of the way down this page: http://

[AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Burke
So I'm starting to look for a replacement for PSVue. I've looked at Youtube TV, Sling and Hulu TV. They all only have fraction of the channels that VUE did. Most notably none of them have any of the Hallmark Channels. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries is available on the $100/month ATT NOW pac

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Ryan Ray
I can't understand Live TV anymore. 30 minute show is 10 minutes of commercials. Hour is 20 minutes. In addition to having no control over your watching habits, it's simply a time waster paying to watch commercials. Sonarr + plex + 6tb hard drive. On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 2:54 PM Nate Burke wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Mark - Myakka Technologies
Nate, Look at philo.com. Doesn't do locals or sports. May have to bundle it with sling to get some sports and use OTA for locals -- Best regards, Markmailto:m...@mailmt.com Myakka Technologies, Inc. www.Myakka.com -- Thursday, November 7, 2019, 5:51:51 PM,

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread chuck
I have Philo and Sling. -Original Message- From: Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:51 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming So I'm starting to look for a replacement for PSVue. I've looked at Youtube TV, Sling and Hulu TV. They all only have frac

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Burke
None of the streaming services have the local Channels I want anyway. Chicago WGN Local broadcast, you can Stream their news broadcast, but only to a browser. And CLTV, Chicago local news all day (Only available on Comcast and RCN) Ok, so WGN is available on Layer3TV(Tmobile TV) , But they m

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Robert Andrews
Youtubetv not in your area? On 11/07/2019 03:44 PM, Nate Burke wrote: None of the streaming services have the local Channels I want anyway. Chicago WGN Local broadcast, you can Stream their news broadcast, but only to a browser. And CLTV, Chicago local news all day (Only available on Comcast

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming

2019-11-07 Thread Chuck McCown
Probably in a fringe area for youtubetv... -Original Message- From: Robert Andrews Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2019 5:50 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Live TV Streaming Youtubetv not in your area? On 11/07/2019 03:44 PM, Nate Burke wrote: None of the streaming servi

[AFMUG] OT Back in the USSA

2019-11-07 Thread Chuck McCown
My wife and I did 13 miles of walking in addition to riding the double decker bus and the canal boat tours in Amsterdam in the last couple of days. Been there, don’t that, don’t need to do Amsterdam again. I asked a girl at an airport food place if she watched Netflix. She said she did. I