It would be interesting, once the latency goes down a bit, if you could run VoIP over the connection, bringing cheap(er) phone services. Those Verizon Airphones are really expensive.
That's a very good point. VoIP in conjunction with IPSec can provide great security, end-to-end. Even better, run your VoIP session on a private network (such as what Level3 is doing). The only thing you have to worry about is sniffers on your local loop. It's actually easier to wiretap a regular phone than a VoIP phone.
but not good for businesses. Skype doesn't offer the "carrier grade" telephony quality/reliability/features businesses are looking for. It's great as a additional line but that's it.
Check out http://voip-info.org/ for a listing of business class VoIP solutions. The best part of something like Skype is outsourcing your communications. You no longer have to be running a PBX in your business. It's what CENTREX was supposed to be.
I live in the Nittany Apartments, it's offcampus/oncampus (they still haven't figured out which) and cables modems aren't available (still not sure why) so this year they decided to give us VerizonDSL. (Each apt. would get one modem and a router provided by the university) No only did we have to wait until someone from the community office contacts Verizon (if we contacted them ourselves, we'd be evicted from the apt.) but we also had to sign up as a personal account. After about two weeks Verizon installed it. Downtimes weren't as bad as my friend's Adelphia cable modem though. At the end of the year I returned the modem and router to the community center only to find, a month later, that I was still paying for service. I called them up and they told me since this was a personal account I had to return the modem. They had no clue that this was even a "university account." Hopefully the community center will be smart enough to send the modem back because i'm not paying $100 for their stupidity. This year they'll have the 100mbs lan connection and I wont have to deal with any Verizon people.
ps. I installed VerizonDSL at my old work. Took them 2 months to figure out that they put a DSL filter on the main line at the outside phone block. Idiots.
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i'd hate to bite, but i guess trolls come in many different forms and varieties. read my post and then your post again and tell me if your follow up makes any sense or somehow contributes to anything. what do violent games have to do with anything? and why would you need to explain it to me if i already know? argh, sorry that i bit, but come on, quit being so disgruntled and contribute something useful.
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This might be slightly off topic but imagine everyone having some sort of broadband access. The net would crawl if not come to a hault. Remember the time when broadband was rare and you had to use your schools (or whatever) T1 line? Remember the speeds on those things? We don't get close to the speed we used to have because everyone is sitting on broadband (myself included) and sucking up bandwidth. All the ISPs have to upgrade their bandwidth to handle it all. Too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing. No, I'm not saying this to discourage people from getting broadband, I still use a 33.6 at home.
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It would be interesting, once the latency goes down a bit, if you could run VoIP over the connection, bringing cheap(er) phone services. Those Verizon Airphones are really expensive.
That's a very good point. VoIP in conjunction with IPSec can provide great security, end-to-end. Even better, run your VoIP session on a private network (such as what Level3 is doing). The only thing you have to worry about is sniffers on your local loop. It's actually easier to wiretap a regular phone than a VoIP phone.
but not good for businesses. Skype doesn't offer the "carrier grade" telephony quality/reliability/features businesses are looking for. It's great as a additional line but that's it.
Check out http://voip-info.org/ for a listing of business class VoIP solutions. The best part of something like Skype is outsourcing your communications. You no longer have to be running a PBX in your business. It's what CENTREX was supposed to be.
I live in the Nittany Apartments, it's offcampus/oncampus (they still haven't figured out which) and cables modems aren't available (still not sure why) so this year they decided to give us VerizonDSL. (Each apt. would get one modem and a router provided by the university) No only did we have to wait until someone from the community office contacts Verizon (if we contacted them ourselves, we'd be evicted from the apt.) but we also had to sign up as a personal account. After about two weeks Verizon installed it. Downtimes weren't as bad as my friend's Adelphia cable modem though. At the end of the year I returned the modem and router to the community center only to find, a month later, that I was still paying for service. I called them up and they told me since this was a personal account I had to return the modem. They had no clue that this was even a "university account." Hopefully the community center will be smart enough to send the modem back because i'm not paying $100 for their stupidity. This year they'll have the 100mbs lan connection and I wont have to deal with any Verizon people.
ps. I installed VerizonDSL at my old work. Took them 2 months to figure out that they put a DSL filter on the main line at the outside phone block. Idiots.
i'd hate to bite, but i guess trolls come in many different forms and varieties. read my post and then your post again and tell me if your follow up makes any sense or somehow contributes to anything. what do violent games have to do with anything? and why would you need to explain it to me if i already know? argh, sorry that i bit, but come on, quit being so disgruntled and contribute something useful.
This might be slightly off topic but imagine everyone having some sort of broadband access. The net would crawl if not come to a hault. Remember the time when broadband was rare and you had to use your schools (or whatever) T1 line? Remember the speeds on those things? We don't get close to the speed we used to have because everyone is sitting on broadband (myself included) and sucking up bandwidth. All the ISPs have to upgrade their bandwidth to handle it all. Too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing. No, I'm not saying this to discourage people from getting broadband, I still use a 33.6 at home.