[TriLUG] telephone system advice

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Jon Carnes via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Any decent internet service will work for a few phones - but you may have to invest in a nice firewall so you can limit the amount of bandwidth used by streaming services like Netflix and Pandora.
>
> The fall back is automatic forwarding of calls to cell phones - or any type of phone really
>
> Plus, you can run via a hotspot if the cable gets knocked out. I did that for a week. Worked fine.
>
      I knew someone whose phone and internet was through verizon. He
had a thingie that was bigger than your normal hotspot since it also
had ethernet port in addition to wifi. Probably expensive but his only
other option was satelite and he found out it sucked for internet

> Jon Carnes
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>> On May 24, 2016, at 16:34, Lance A. Brown via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> Jim Ray via TriLUG wrote on 5/24/2016 4:07 PM:
>>> Checkout http://www.phonebooth.com
>>>
>>> That's what I use. It is well worth my $20 per month to rent their
>>> phone system in the cloud. I think they are a sister company of
>>> Bandwidth.com that hosts TriLUG meetings.
>>
>> What kind of Internet connection is necessary to make this kind of
>> service viable and what's the fallback for fiber cuts, etc.?
>>
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