Home VOIP gateway for outgoing calls while I'm on the road.

No considerable wrath at all.

Ohh, I did not know you could configure your caller ID to be whatever you want. Actually that could be a bit scary as you could spoof someone's phone number.

I also did not realize you could get prepaid services with no monthly fees. Very, interesting. Got any URLs of such services handy? Heck, that'd be cheaper than my current long distance even when I'm at home.

That does change the equation quite a bit. Especially given Wolfgang's negative comments regarding the echo and sound volumes.

Tony

I use both Gefachi and Teliax

They have roughly similar plans (no monthly for an outgoing-only account and

2cents/min.)

For incoming calls we have two ipkall numbers. The biggest problem with those was that our local friends object to making expensive long distance calls to call us across town. Thats why I ended up getting teliax, just for the local phone number. The trick is to look for pay-as-you-go "business" plans.

One thing I didn't realize when I signed up for an incoming number with teliax was that incoming calls cost the same as outgoing. It threw me for a bit of a loop at first, but than I realized that compared to my total POTS bill it isn't a big enough deal moneywise to worry about yet.

-wolfgang

And they even take PayPal. Very nice. I will definitely be giving this one a try in a day or two.

Thanks for disagreeing with me.

Tony