atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General General Telephone & Systems Information Is VoIP an attempt to steal phone tech work?

You should be farming their customer base. Then again, why bother. They're already coming to you! :thumb:

It's kinda like a first date.

More like you get totally s*** faced, wake up the next morning in bed next to some really ugly broad and then you find out that you married her last night.

-Hal

And paid a HUGE price for the wedding. What you don't understand is why the honeymoon didn't turn out like your golf buddies described.

Guys, you are killllllling me !!!!!!!!

:rofl: :shrug:

I knew I was going to get blasted from all the tried and true folks on here. I expected that and that's why I waited to post.

I guess all we can do is hurry up and wait.

I know that I am not willing to stake my future on how things were 10 years ago, let alone 100.

Ken, if I had to guess, I'd say you were at the mexican food place @ about 18th and Broadway in KCMO. Man, I can taste their 1/2 bowl of Mexican Chili with flour tortillas, used to be 2.95, 20 years ago.

Kumba, as an old dog, I suspect you will be proved right in the end. It's just that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", esp if they won't pay attention (Translation, close to retirement, whether they can afford it or not). So VOIP will sucessfully, reliably deploy, and us old dogs will be around to keep the leftovers running until they're no longer viable. Just my 50 cents worth. (Inflation, you know!) John C. (Not Garand)

I dont think VoIP will replace TDM, but will instead compliment it to a point that it is amibiguous which is which.

And for the record, doing VoIP over the internet or any unmanaged network is bad. Probably why I dont do internet-based VoIP installs.

Lightninghorse,

Your statement makes me think of the TV repairmen that would not adapt to solid state, they just kept repairing the tube type TVs until there were no more left....

if the blocks in the picture are the type with 66 style punch on the lower and RJ jacks in the upper, they are not usually wired as normal.

In the mod-jack blocks, tip & ring are side by side, not over/under.

Frank, I know I am tired and senile, but, where is the picture? :shrug:

And Kumba, we were not blasting you, just having a tongue-in-cheek moment while I ate pepper pork and soupy beans. And John, La Cockaroacha is at 17th and Broadway, still a good deal if it weren't for the yuppies. Manny's is down the hill. Ponack's just under I-35. Then you go out Southwest Blvd to the Argentine. Where else do you have a Mexican joint and a BBQ shack sharing a parking lot?

Guys, Kumba has pretty well summed it up. Unmanaged networks and junk equipment will always hurt the VoIP people until it does mature.

Have a good night, I'm eating spicy ribs tonight.