murray1987
join:2006-06-24
York, SC
| Using VoIP with Satellite Internet
I was looking into a VoIP telephone service like SunRocket or Vonage. Does anyone know how well they work with satellite internet?
Their websites just state they are for highspeed internet like cable or dsl. Nothing is stated about satellite. When I called they acted like they had never heard of Wildblue or any satellite service.
Thanks,
Blake |
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ahedge
Premium
join:2002-05-14
Shepherd, TX
 ·Millenicom
| said by murray1987  :I was looking into a VoIP telephone service like SunRocket or Vonage. Does anyone know how well they work with satellite internet? Their websites just state they are for highspeed internet like cable or dsl. Nothing is stated about satellite. When I called they acted like they had never heard of Wildblue or any satellite service. That's your answer I guess. 
I tried NetZero but wasn't happy with the results. Many of those services have a free trial, perhaps you should see if it works for you. |
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Puzzled_
@12.189.x.x | reply to murray1987
Does WildBlue support VoIP?
At this time, WildBlue does not support VoIP.
»www.wildblue.com/aboutWildblue/qaa.jsp#5_9 |
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Broadband non existe
@centurytel.net | Wildblue and other satellite internet is junk. Until they improve the technology I wont get it. VOIP on satellite broadband will not work effeeciently or maybe not all. Not worth trying. |
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roadsscholar7
Premium
join:2003-10-16
Deux Rivieres, ON
| quote:
Wildblue and other satellite internet is junk. Until they improve the technology I wont get it. VOIP on satellite broadband will not work effeeciently or maybe not all. Not worth trying.
Darn, wish I'd known that, I wouldn't have spent 600 VoIP satellite internet minutes last month on calls all over N. America. |
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Mikofox
Gun Control Saves Li..Bears
Premium
join:2003-01-05
North of 61&
| Do a search on this forum for VoIP and you'll find that there is a difference between the U.S. and Canadian Ka-band providers.
In Canada it works quite well, as roadsscholar and others can attest to, and in the U.S. it may or may not work at all.
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Mike | Telesat Ka 1500/300 Service, DW6000 SOHO, G11/1070, 1.80m Dish, Signal 84, Airport EBS, AL Powerbook 15", iMac G5 20", OS 10.4.7, All Mac Browsers, EvoCam, Skype, iChat, RE System. |
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Skyway
Skyway
join:2003-02-04
Mission, BC
| reply to roadsscholar7
Just a comment or two:
roadsscolar is in Canada and Canadian KAband works quite good with VOIP..WildBlue does not....
Also Canadian KABand doesn't work well with P2P programs, but WildBlue does....
It all is determined by traffic shaping I guess?
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DirecWay/Anikast/Motosat/Tachyon installer l Home-ShawCable HS l Work vehicle-Motosat D2 F1 6000 from Xplornet [Canadian] l Windows XP |
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Mikofox
Gun Control Saves Li..Bears
Premium
join:2003-01-05
North of 61&
| I find VoIP essential nowadays. It beats me why any satellite service provider would block it in any way, especially as none of them seems to be able to provide their own alternative. If more WB users would protest, maybe they'd rethink their policy.
Skyway, I've done a little P2P since I got the system last week and can say that it works for me. Slow speeds at below 10 KBs, but it works.
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Mike | Telesat Ka 1500/300 Service, DW6000 SOHO, G11/1070, 1.80m Dish, Signal 84, Airport EBS, AL Powerbook 15", iMac G5 20", OS 10.4.7, All Mac Browsers, EvoCam, Skype, iChat, RE System. |
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Skyway
Skyway
join:2003-02-04
Mission, BC | Yeh, That is what I have been told, works but very slow... |
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ahedge
Premium
join:2002-05-14
Shepherd, TX
·Millenicom
| reply to roadsscholar7
said by roadsscholar7 : quote:
Wildblue and other satellite internet is junk. Until they improve the technology I wont get it. VOIP on satellite broadband will not work effeeciently or maybe not all. Not worth trying.
Darn, wish I'd known that, I wouldn't have spent 600 VoIP satellite internet minutes last month on calls all over N. America.  |
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cokesat
Premium
join:2005-11-16
Cleveland, TN
| reply to Skyway
said by Skyway :It all is determined by traffic shaping I guess? My Two cent I had the opportunity to try Zingotel Free
for a couple of months back in the March/April time fram.
on WB It work real good sometimes and sometimes it was
slow but it always worked.
Then last Month the opportunity came back around to try again but this time it was Very Different. For the most part it would not work at all.
What happened could it be "traffic shaping".
That was my only expenerence with VOIP on WB |
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cardiacpaul
join:2006-09-19
Pottsboro, TX
| reply to murray1987
I am looking for an alternative as well... I currently have a 900mhz radio antenna system that isn't so hot, 384k down 200k up.. the problem we're having is latency and dropped packets. Service provider just shrugs and can't do a thing about it. No, there are no other 900mhz devices within a country mile so interference isn't the problem.
current lat runs around 100ms... and my vonage sucks big. so you're all saying, forget wildblue? |
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beldin
Permanently barned
Premium
join:2006-06-06
Union, SC
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to murray1987
Wildblue ping times average around 700ms no matter which pack you have (Value, Select or Pro). There's no way around this. VoIP will work, but not well. I wouldn't try it with the Value pack, but it may work ok with Select or Pro.
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Liberty
join:2005-06-12
Tucson, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to murray1987
netzerovoice works
Not well but does work, always
I have many WB users that netzero is their ONLY phone they have
Not because it is their choice but because they are out of the reach of ANY other phone connection.
If you can get a phone connection any other way - use that service
WB is a tool for browsing/mail, any other use is a bonus
I had a dozen people try it this weekend alone, at a county fair I was at
All agreed they wouldn't want to use it as primary connection if they had a choice |
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