[wellylug] broadband recommendations, etc

[Mark Foster]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Atom Smasher wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Mark Foster wrote:
>
>> I personally use WorldxChange and generally have had a good experience;
>> most of the problems have been tied to the Telecom landline!
>>
>> You'll need a Telecom phone line, and dialtone, I believe.  Naked DSL is
>> close, but not quite there yet - so youre right, you need phone service
>> on the line before DSL will work.
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>
> so you use WXC for voice calls, but you still need a dial-tone through
> telecom?

I use WXC for DSL Service. I have a dialtone provided by Telecom.

The landline is primarily for inbound calls for my family and local calls 
when convenient (mainly for family - and not me) - I have free minutes on 
my cellphone which is used for almost all of my voicecalling.

> while we're talking about DSL, what modems are recommended? or recommended
> to avoid?

Personally I've had bad experiences with Dynalink, tainted by the fact 
that they don't seem to like IPSEC VPN's much.

I had a D-Link which was fine for a number of years, and currently use a 
Netgear.  I like the Netgear quite a bit, actually, inbuild VPN support 
and DynDNS, etc etc.


> and with the WXC service, do they provide a VOIP ATA? if not... which ones
> are are recommended? or recommended to avoid?

They provide voice services, go to their website and check out VFX - the 
voice over IP service.
They also provide a tolls service for your conventional landline.

Mark.