On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:34:27 +0000, [email]hairydog@despammed.com[/email] wrote:

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>Perhaps this is why most of what you write about VOIP is such utter
>rubbish. You seem to think that VOIP is a way to save money.[/color]
£ 7.00 a month for Vonage against £ 11.00 for BT a saving of a fiver a
month for starters so I suppose that fiver is actually wasted in your
eyes not saved .[color=blue]
>Sorry, but that's simply not true. Yes, VOIP is fairly price
>competitive, but for most people, it save so little money that that's
>not good reason to use it.[/color]
I happen to think that even being able to save 50 p a month on
something our other is an excellent reason to use anything never mind
a fiver in the case of Vonage .[color=blue]
>For us, the reasons for using VOIP are all
>about facilities and services, not saving money.[/color]
Vonage offer the same services and facilities has others do but I do
not use any of them not even voicemail and regarding voicemail if I
call someone and a voicemail service answers the phone goes down
I like to speak to people not machines .[color=blue]
>You may think that paying a few quid for a cheap UPS is a waste of
>money, but I don't agree. Even if we didn't have a computer at all,
>I'd still want the cordless phones and answering machine to stay
>powered up. The cost of a small UPS is very low.[/color]
Oh yes the cost of these are very low but what the hell use is this
when the battery only gives 20 minutes of use .
"Thanks to the new PowerSure Personal XT you can have continuous
cost-effective power protection in your office or home. It is
specifically designed to protect PCs, Workstations, Network Nodes and
also Fax, Scanners and Audio/Video equipment. If the mains supply
fails or moves outside an acceptable level, the PowerSure Personal XT
offers up to 20 minutes of battery back up (depending on the actual
load), giving ample time to protect the equipment and save files
through Liebert’s WEB based Multilink Software."
I wouldn't give it house room I mean they say giving ample time to
back up files etc so if the power goes down at 3 am is the damned
thing going to come and wake you up or something .[color=blue]
> paying a few quid for a cheap UPS[/color]
Your words not mine 37 quid cheap enough for you and totally useless.
Besides which all my important files are backed up at least four times
during the course of any evening. I just do not have any use at all
for a UPS offer me the best one money can buy and I would not have it
in the house because I have no use for one .