[ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

[Yu, Jerry]

heard over the radio the morning, Comcast is upgraded to 6Mb/768k now.
the 'send' channel doubled its speed...

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# From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
# Behalf Of Jim Popovitch
# Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:37 PM
# To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations
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# 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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