OT: internet phones

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:24:39AM -0500, Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI) wrote:
>      I am curious as to the quality of the calls that Vonage and other
> users are getting.  My testing with IP telephony using my laptop when
> I travel to various locations leads me to think that residential IP
> telephony isn't ready for prime time yet.  Or, maybe it's just the
> low grade of wireless internet service I get when I'm staying in
> cheap motels that's making the difference <grin>.

We're using Vonage over Road Runner Tampa Bay, and our voice quality is
generally fine (except when I'm dumb enough to slam our router port
while on a call, when the outbound voice suffers some), but our problem
is call control: I'm not all that happy with SimulRing and its poor
interactions with Nextel and their silly "to be located" message --
which I think supervises, although it certainly shouldn't.

Cheers,
-- jra
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