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4 edits | reply to sirchief
Re: Thinking of moving to comcast....
Rick, I'm clueless how Comcast does long haul VoIP without benefit of the internet's backbone etc. Please explain. Thanks.
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Depending upon your LD call geography & volume, it's often a better deal to roll your own VoIP. To go from clueless noob to getting a $60 VoIP device up and at'em that will use your existing telephones takes around an hour or two worth of research. (Even I did it! ;+/ )
Another way to look at it --
At $0.03 per minute for POTS LD, (»www.saveonphone.com/)
and free cell calls after 19:00, I could never justify the math & cost for a flat rate LD charge from any type of provider. If an AT&T POTS line costs $15 per month, and for the other $15 for a flat rate, at 3 cents per minute, that's a comparative 8.33 hours of POTS LD per month to make any provider's $30 flat rate phone service worthwhile. For some, the deal is perhaps a dream come true. For me - you would have to force me at gunpoint to spend 8.x LD hours on the phone at home per month.
Your mileage may vary. |
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Rick
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| said by Grumpy  :Rick, I'm clueless how Comcast does long haul VoIP without benefit of the internet's backbone etc. Please explain. Thanks. As I understand it, Comcast has a network for phone traffic that spreads coast to coast. Comcast to comcast customer calls are handled totally on that network, while other landline calls are handed off to the telco's networks from whatever closest point they can be coming off comcasts network.
And so, there's no internet involved.
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| You could well be right, but I'm having a hard time believing that each and every Comcast facility in every state is connected by a common or dedicated to Comcast cabling system, or that they rent bird space just to handle their own internal VoIP traffic. I would believe that a VoIP signal from the Comcast caller's house to the local Comcast office is on their dedicated cabling, but a call from NY to CA handled exclusively by Comcast infrastructure? Hmmmm...
I could be wrong. |
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Rick
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4 edits | Here's the answer. It's as I thought.
»www.comcastphoneoffers.com/1/faq.php#q11
Btw..as you can see from the post jbob made..he's saying he and dadkins can also trace right to each other (arkansas to California) without ever leaving comcasts network.
»Re: Minneapolis up on ibone
In the same thread, EG is saying he can stay on Comcasts network from NJ to california.
Obviously..comcast has been VERY busy lately!
IMHO..it's all part of a few things.
Docsis 3.0 is coming...and some REAL Big speed increases.
I also think that they'll enter the lower speed HSI game and take on DSL with some new pricing.
Will they?
We'll see. But i wouldn't be surprised at all to see new triple play pricing in the near future, composed of lower hsi tiers as well. And, if they get into the 1.5 to 3Mb Hsi game..they could perhaps shave 20.00 /month off their 99.00 triple play price taking it down to perhaps the sub 80.00 range even.
Take what i'm saying as the ramblings of a comcast fanatic but..what's stopping them from doing just that?
Nothing that I can see.
Edit..oh..btw...LOOK at the latency they're seeing coast to coast!
Amazing. But..then again..if it's all under comcasts control now..this is probably to be expected.
Welcome to the "IBone". 
Edit again..holy crap..Apparently Ct. is now on the Ibone as well.
Just ran a tracert to San Francisco..never left comcasts network..and never topped out over 100ms anywhere..not even once..at a single hop.
WOW! |
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MrFixitSC
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2 edits | said by Rick :Take what i'm saying as the ramblings of a comcast employee  |
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Grumpy
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That's impressive. |
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| From the front page this morning »tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/20···nosaurs/
This article really bashes them. I don't think they are all that terrible.
Bottom line: Find the solution that you find works best for you. Good luck.
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