[ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

[Klepinger, Aaron]

By the way, what BellSouth location do you work at?  :)

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Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I heavily looked into doing the all VoIP at Home thing a few months ago.
> In short the latency and packetloss issues of using either 256K DSL
> (BellSouth) or 5Mb/384k Cable (Comcast) made it impossible to conduct 
> a business call without seriously causing problems for people on the 
> other end of the call or conference bridge.  Vonage is probably ok for

> limited use to call and order a pizza or such.  VoIP in general for 
> broadband home users just isn't there (IMHO) for "realtime"
> conversations where you don't have a 5 sec lag and you aren't
constantly repeating things.
> 
> A really really bad TDMA cellphone connection is still better than 
> broadband VoIP these days.  Tomorrow may change things as codecs are 
> constantly improved and networks (hopefully) become more reliable.
>