| ... I wonder if VoIP will face troubled times if ISP's implement some of the low caps we've seen headlines about. I suppose the caps may be high enough that a user wont need to be concerned about VoIP or VoIP subscription might be limited to service provided by and given a bandwidth freepass by the ISP.
I fortunately don't face any caps yet, but I'm still left wondering about the long term viability of my Vonage service. Even though VoIP alone wouldn't hit any reasonable cap, with a family all using the internet, we'll have to be careful how the pipe gets used. |
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| said by Millenniumle:I wonder if VoIP will face troubled times if ISP's implement some of the low caps we've seen headlines about. I suppose the caps may be high enough that a user wont need to be concerned about VoIP or VoIP subscription might be limited to service provided by and given a bandwidth freepass by the ISP. I fortunately don't face any caps yet, but I'm still left wondering about the long term viability of my Vonage service. Even though VoIP alone wouldn't hit any reasonable cap, with a family all using the internet, we'll have to be careful how the pipe gets used. I doubt caps will be a concern regarding VOIP. Why? Let's do some math:
G711 ulaw codec: 87.2KBit/s (the bulkiest codec)
87.2KBit/s = 10.9KByte/Sec
1GB VOIP Data = 1,024MB VOIP Data = 1,048,576KByte
1,048,576KByte / 10.9KByte/s = just over 96,199 seconds
96,199 seconds = just over 1,603 minutes
So, just over 1,603 minutes per Gigabyte.
1,603 minutes = 53 minutes, 26 seconds per DAY, assuming the same use every DAY.
Or, let's assume a family of four, and each person talks 3 hours every single day. That's 360 hours of talk each month. That's also about 13.5GB.
So, no real concerns. The data usage is minimal, even with obscene amounts of talking. |
