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  3. February 2006

Re: VOIP (was: Since we were speaking of Gmail....)

Actually, the Aterisk@Home works great for the home use. It does require some technical know-how, like network and telephone wiring. Also, running IP phones (the Linksys SPA 941 is about $150) can be costly but has some great features. The server will communicate with the VOIP service providers (not Vonage unless you add the 'Softphone' feature) and provide unlimited called for less than $50/mth. Overseas called is cheap also at about $.03 to Great Britan. Italian cell phones are still $.34/min! so be sure to check the plan. There are howtos on keeping the monthly cost below $10, but that requires more tweaking.
On the subject of security, has anyone really tried to sniff and ethernet/wireless connection? Huge amounts of data to sort through. Also, VOIP protocols are digital and not analog, so 'wire tapping' is really done at the collectors, like Vonage or Qwest. My guess at the moment is that VOIP has more security than analog lines, but who knows what's going on in the switching rooms? 

Fritz Hayes

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
Unless the VOIPs offer encrypted transmission. 

That would be possible w/something like Asterisk, which is an
open-source VoIP PBX -- neat product, but not for home use. 
...only a wired landline phone


Don't take this the wrong way, but that logic always cracked me up. You
know that I can walk to the patch panel down the street from your house
w/a $10 phone from home depot and listen to any land-line conversation,
right? Given that digital cell phones calls (we're all digital these
days, no?) are encrypted, plus, hooking into a data stream isn't the
easiest thing in the world, I'd say a good-old analog land-line is
probably the least secure method of communication these days.

-Walden

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