[Cialug] VoIP

[Patrick]

What VoIP platform are we talking about?  I've been successful with running 
VoIP over a 28k dial up connection using Asterisk and G.729.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Weida" <jweida@gmail.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] VoIP


> 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.
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:04 -0600, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave@58ghz.net> 
> wrote:
>> I just got rid of my Qwest voice service, and have been totally wireless
>> with US Cell for almost 3 weeks. Its a weird feeling, but it seems to be
>> without issue.  Its weird to dump my home number that I've had for
>> almost 20 years...
>>
>> :) Dave
>>
>> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:05, Neal Daringer wrote:
>> > i live in iowa city. vonage has numbers in every state now except for 
>> > montana,
>> > wyoming, alaska, hawaii, idaho, and virginia(i think its virginia). as 
>> > far as
>> > what they have for where you can get a number in iowa they can give you 
>> > a
>> > number in the following areas:
>> > ankeny, des moines, clinton, davenport, marshalltown, ottumwa, carter 
>> > lake,
>> > council bluffs, souix city, burlington, cedar falls, iowa city, cedar 
>> > rapids,
>> > waterloo, and waverly.
>> >
>> > from what i could get out of their FAQ page there isn't much you can do 
>> > with
>> > VoIP when you have a connection under 1.5mbit. something about the 
>> > duplex it
>> > encodes at or something. probably keep looking into this stuff. just 
>> > want to
>> > tell qwest to go to hell since i haven't had a decent call on my home 
>> > phone in
>> > the last year and they won't fix it. i'd get rid of it all together but 
>> > the
>> > wife won't let me.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Quoting Jonathan Bailey <jcbailey@code0.net>:
>> >
>> > > Vonage does have DSM area numbers. I believe they are out for DSM
>> > > proper, but they have Ankeny. They also have Ames numbers.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Jon
>> > >
>> > > Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I had vonage for two years, it will only save you money if you 
>> > >> actually use
>> > >> it.  My wife complained about the call quality (both on ADSL 144k 
>> > >> and T1) so
>> > >> I finally cancelled it.  Since I started playing with Asterisk I've 
>> > >> used
>> > >> nufone Voipjet and a few others.  There is a lot more savings to be 
>> > >> had with
>> > >> a prepaid plan like these if you are only dialing out.  Vonage 
>> > >> didn't have
>> > >> DIDs in Iowa last I checked (4 months ago) so you can't have a local 
>> > >> number.
>> > >> We will be/are one of the last states to get local numbers.
>> > >>
>> > >> If you do a lot of LD calling you might be able to get your money's 
>> > >> worth
>> > >> from Vonage, but I think there is going to be a big VOIP shake-up in 
>> > >> the
>> > >> future when some of the other companies start playing VOIP and we 
>> > >> will start
>> > >> to see some really cheap calling.  As long as the FCC stays out of
>> > >> it.  My advice is to skip Vonage and either use Asterisk or wait for
>> > >> something
>> > >> better.  BTW, a service called Bellster now offers free p2p asterisk 
>> > >> to PSTN
>> > >> calling over the Internet.  I used it last night and thought it was 
>> > >> OK.  It
>> > >> is new as of Friday and there may still be issues with it.
>> > >>
>> > >> -Nate
>> > >>
>> > >> -----Original Message-----
>> > >> From: Neal Daringer [mailto:admin@c0wzftp.com] Sent: Monday, January
>> > >> 24, 2005 10:33 AM
>> > >> To: cialug@cialug.org
>> > >> Subject: [Cialug] VoIP
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> any of you have experience with VoIP telephone companies (i.e. 
>> > >> packet8,
>> > >> vonage, etc.)? just wondering if it would actually be worth checking 
>> > >> out to
>> > >> save $ on the phone bill.
>> > >>
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