<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">You could put it inside the firewall, just make sure that the appropriate ports are open.<br><div> </div>Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre@yahoo.com><br>They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Phil Groschwitz <ssc1478@aim.com><br>To: General user list <wplug@wplug.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:19:52 PM<br>Subject: Re: [wplug] VOIP recommendation<br><br>
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:25:38 -0400<br>"Michael Semcheski" <<a ymailto="mailto:mhsemcheski@gmail.com" href="mailto:mhsemcheski@gmail.com">mhsemcheski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I'm interested in voip for my house too. I have an IPCop firewall, and<br>it sounds like if I were to get voip I should put the voip box between<br>my cable modem and the IPCop firewall. Is that right? Is there any<br>security problems with that? I'd hate for the voip box to get hacked<br>and wind up with a phone bill from some exotic island.<br><br>> I'll add a couple of data points here:<br>> <br>> I used <a target="_blank" href="http://Speakeasy.net">Speakeasy.net</a>'s VOIP service for one year. I started off with<br>> a 1.5/384 ADSL setup. That was inadequate. I had to bump up to<br>> 1.5/768 to have acceptable phone. I am actually pretty disappointed<br>> with Speakeasy. It felt like a
bait-and-switch. However, once I was<br>> up to 1.5/768, the quality of service was fine, but expensive.<br>> <br>> I'm currently using Comcast and am surprisingly pleased with their<br>> VOIP service. Their modem / VOIP gateway has a built in UPS, which
is<br>> nice.<br><br>Comcast isn't cheap, though, is it? I'm thinking of vonage, <a target="_blank" href="http://voip.com">voip.com</a>,<br>verizon's VoiceWing, or ATT's CallVantage. I think they're all under<br>$30. I first started looking at Skype but that one seems too<br>problematic. I like this softphone idea, though.<br><br>BTW, I've had IPCop for a long time. When I got it, I had<br>middleschoolers and wanted content filtering and logging. They're
grown<br>now and I no longer need that kind of protection. I've accumulated an<br>unmatched collection of hubs, WAP's, noisy FW server, and power<br>supplies. I wonder if its time to throw it all out and buy a single<br>firewall/router/wap/phone ata device???<br><br>Phil<br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:wplug@wplug.org" href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">wplug@wplug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug" target="_blank">http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug</a><br></div><br></div></div><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com </body></html>