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Normally I love chuckling at the absurdities of daily life, but this one is just stupid.

I switched from cable modem service and the cheap $15 a month Vonage service to DSL and a regular phone line which is $16.
Why? Well at this point I need unlimited local calling more than 500 mins long distance on Vonage, and I want a phone that works regardless of what the network is doing.

Unfortunatly, having been spoiled by Vonage for several years now, I didn’t realize that CallerId isn’t a “standard” feature, and we need CallerId. It is an extra $10 a month.
So at this point, the stupid “regular old phone line” ($16 + $10) now costs me more per month than the DSL ( $20 ). Which is just Absurd.

The net result is I am paying just as much as before but:

1. I get a “stable” phone line with unlimited local calling.
2. Any long distance we need to do will have to go on our cell phones, which most of it was anyways.
3. My downstream bandwith is the same, but I do get another 15 kB/s upstream, which is nice.