[Asterisk-Users] One SIP dead, all SIP dead -- sipmedia gone?

[Jay Milk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco at ns.sol.net] 
> 
> > juju to have all your IPs in one block.
> 
> Actually, they didn't have all their DNS servers in one block.

Touche... I didn't even double-check, just assumed.
 
> while, we ran with sequentially numbered servers that were in 
> completely different cities, thanks to the magic of OSPF and 

True.

> > I don't think they were reselling, and I actually thought I had a 
> ...
> > availability, they've been the best provider out of all I tried 
> > (Vonage, Broadvoice, voicepulse, iax.cc, ... )
> 
> Best price is occasionally a bad sign.

Granted.  But I did say "between pricing and availability".  Their BYOD
plan is $5/month and includes 60 outgoing minutes, "unlimited" incoming,
and sip-only access.  After explaining that I wanted several lines and a
discount, they asked me quite bluntly what kind of incoming volume I
expected; when they learned that I'm a residential user with minimal
volume, they allowed me to drop the included outgoing minutes and
adjusted their pricing south.  Seems fair and well-calculated to me.  I
could have gotten cheaper lines from the yokels at sixtel/iax.cc...
Well, if they ever fixed their "instant" 3-months ordering system.

For sipmedia, good response, quick set-up, proper fraud-protection...
All around good, just some recurring problems with their upstream
(bandwidth) providers from what I can tell.  They're reselling L3.
Three failures in seven months isn't great, and the response on this
last one was lacking -- but they're still doing better than the local
utility, which leaves us an average of eight hours/month without
electricity :)