[MLB-WIRELESS] [OT] Deal on home phones.

[Brenton D.]

You can run whatever you like, as long as you dont hog the bandwidth 24/7



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen" 
<gabpaul at numbat.melbpc.org.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] [OT] Deal on home phones.


> personally I have been toying with the idea of switching over to broadband 
> and getting a VOIP phone... anyone have an opinion on that?
>
> and to bring it back to topic, could we run VOIP over MW?
>
>
> also been thinking about network connectivity again... it occurred to me 
> that most real BB plans don't actually shut off your pipe if you go over 
> MB budget, they just shape the traffic viciously.  so heres a thought. 
> take 2 MW members, each with BB that shapes traffic, each with a freebsd 
> router/wireless box. set up a  VPN over a bandwidth filtered pipe via the 
> internet.  You now have low bandwidth cross connect between two nodes 
> independant of geography...
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:27:55 +1000 (EST), Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Apologies for the OT post, it's not something I do normally, but here we 
>> go.
>>
>> Through my work, AAPT have offered a deal for Family and Friends of
>> employees to get $10 off their phone line rental each month if I refer
>> them before the 30th June 2005.
>>
>> From the deal they've sent me:
>> "Your family and friends (FAF) get $10 off their home phone line rental
>> every month. Normally our residential line rental is $29.95, but through
>> our FAF offer it becomes just $19.95 a month! This is with our standard
>> smartchat anytime home phone plan. All that we ask is that they sign up
>> for Online Billing (or incur a $1.50 monthly admin fee) and Direct Debit
>> (or incur a $2 monthly fee)."
>>
>> As I personally hate paying anything for line rental, and I know some of
>> you guys feel the same, so I thought I'd pass this on. If you're
>> interested, email me off list, and I'll let you know more.
>>
>
>
>
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