phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
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·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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Re: VoIP is a step down from POTS
said by ifarrell  :said by LinuxJunkie :.........It COULD theoretically be much more reliable if voice and video packets were prioritized over others but then we get into the whole Net Neutrality debate........ Well I guess that would mean VoIP would go down the Tubes like a Dump Truck???  In my case Vonage works, well, OK. But in the last week or so I have had a few more dropped calls than normal even during off-peak hours. I'd trust my Mobile Phone before VoIP but at least it's cheap and you get what you pay for at the end of the day. I agree. I pay $35 a year for a SIPphone DID, and it's reliably cheap enough to run a conference bridge on... I have VoIP on my home phone thru Comcast, and a cell thru Verizon. I am ready to take almost as many calls as you can throw at me... For outbound, I make free calls thru voipuser.org, no cost to join or use, they just limit your calltimes to less than 10 or 20 minutes...
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA
 ·Mediacom
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Well, POTS is better than VOIP, from a quality and reliability standpoint. But it is a trade-off. I'm far happier paying a couple dollars a month for VOIP minutes than paying the crooks, er, the phone company $40 just to keep an old POTS line croaking.
As for prioritization, it is already being done. VOIP packets do have top priority on several networks already. |
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McShaken
Premium
join:2006-02-20
Olympia, WA
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I wonder how reliable POTS was in its early days... Quck, call up any old person you know (parents, grandparents, creepy old guy down the block) and find out what the telephone was like in the "olden" days...
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
 ·Vonage
1 edit | reply to LinuxJunkie
said by LinuxJunkie :.........It COULD theoretically be much more reliable if voice and video packets were prioritized over others but then we get into the whole Net Neutrality debate........ Well I guess that would mean VoIP would go down the Tubes like a Dump Truck???
In my case Vonage works, well, OK. But in the last week or so I have had a few more dropped calls than normal even during off-peak hours.
I'd trust my Mobile Phone before VoIP but at least it's cheap and you get what you pay for at the end of the day. |
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LinuxJunkie
join:2005-01-19
Cyberspace
1 edit | reply to ITALIAN926
I'm not here saying VoIP has the same 99.9% reliability as a POTS line but it definitely is as reliable as a typical cell phone... not to mention loads cheaper. It COULD theoretically be much more reliable if voice and video packets were prioritized over others but then we get into the whole Net Neutrality debate. I think voice and video SHOULD be prioritized, HOWEVER it should be ALL voice and video packets and equally... this should be written into law so that voice and video can be prioritized while ISP's such as Comcast and AT&T wouldn't be able to prioritize their own voice and video packets over anybody else's (unless their's run on their private network that is not shared with other content). If that were to happen, then I'd say we should prioritize then. |
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ITALIAN926
join:2003-08-16
Stratford, CT | reply to Tikker_LoS
Uh oh, now youre in trouble. Here comes all the VoIP cheerleaders to try to disillusion everyone into thinking voIP is more RELIABLE than POTS.
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