[Cialug] VoIP

[Jerry Weida]

When were you trying the Mediacom Cable Modem service?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:59:06 -0600, Tim Perdue <tim@perdue.net> wrote:
> Jerry Weida wrote:
> > One drawback for VoIP is that it requires a constant 110kbps in each
> > direction in order to provide a "clear" line.  While most broadband
> > connections can easily provide this in most packages, the problem
> > becomes clear when a cable modem/dsl line doesn't have "reserved
> > bandwidth" for the VoIP product.  It requires a constant rate, which
> > many broadband providers don't have.
> >
> > Mediacom is working with DOCSIS 1.1 which can provide the necessary
> > bandwidth reservation and they did do a trial for VoIP in the current
> > cable system which ended about a year ago.  Hopefully something more
> > will come out of it soon.
> >
> > I don't know if Qwest has any such bandwidth reservation available for
> > the DSL platform, but it would be interesting to find out.
> 
> I've been using Vonage for about 11 months and think it's great. We went
> ahead and canceled the Qwest land line a month or so ago.
> 
> The vonage was having trouble with sending faxes reliably when we were
> running it over the cable modem, but since we switched to DSL, it's been
> extremely reliable. With the DSL line, I can be sending a FAX over line
> 2 and talking on Line 1 without much trouble.
> 
> Jettisoning both the Qwest landline and Mediacom and using DSL+Dish
> network is pretty liberating.
> 
> Tim
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