[Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

[Ben Barrett]

EWEB has almost-dark [but not quite dark] fiber running along 11th Ave 
(and some of Oak downtown)... startup costs are exorbitant, but if 
anyone is looking at homes with the best future-potential for bandwidth, 
I think this is a worthy consideration!

     Ben


Bob Miller wrote the following on 1/18/2005 9:34 AM:

>John Sechrest wrote:
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>>Hal Pomeranz <hal at deer-run.com> writes:
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>> % Vonage is one company that does this.
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>> Yes, and Skype... But neither of these are the one. This one
>> was doing redirection and providing more traditional services. 
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>It seems like the only real value a VoIP telephone company can add,
>for the hacker who enjoys building his own phone system, is routing
>to/from the PSTN.  Skype and Vonage sell complete "phone service" for
>nontechnical customers, and their product is no cheaper than Qwest
>(for basic service).
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>There've got to be companies that will rent just a phone number and
>forwarding to your home Asterisk server for a very low cost.
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>> The real question is what are you doing to get redundant networks
>> to your house, so that your IP network is redundant. So that the 
>> answer becomes use the other pipe. 
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>If you're in town, you can easily do that.  Comcast, DSL and a WISP.
>But the original question was, "How can I stop giving those jackasses
>at Qwest my money?"  If you don't want to pay the jackasses at Qwest,
>you probably don't want to pay Comcast's donkeys either.
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