[ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

[Jim Popovitch]

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.

-Jim P.

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 13:27 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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> Hey, I know that there was a meeting on this, but I am looking at
> getting away from my cell phone and I was thinking about going to a
> landline, but I think I'd rather go with VoIP given all of it's advantages.
> 
> Having looked through, I thought that this was something that was
> discussed on the mailing list, but I can't seem to find it in the
> archives.  I know that at the meeting people were saying to avoid
> Vonage.  Other then the 911 issues it experiences, I'm not sure why it's
> such a "bad" thing.
> 
> Can anyone that currently has VoIP tell me the best place to go in terms
> of what they'd recommend and why?  Just curious.  Thanks.
> 
> 	- Mike
> 
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