O Canada! > Canadian > Canadian Broadband > voip.ms Toronto servers

voip.ms Toronto servers

I've been using newyork and chicago voip.ms servers for the last 3-4 years b/c I've always had issues with Toronto. It's not even in Toronto, it's at some cheapo DC in Hamilton called Carat Networks.
--
Fiber Optics are the future of high-speed internet access. Stop by the BBR »Fiber Optic Forum.

Oh fuck, great.

Well, I'm tempted to try the Montreal servers. I used the Seattle server last week for a few days and it was crap - call quality suffered.

Man what a PITA. Dammit.

Mike

reply to dillyhammer
Voip.ms uses carat networks to host their toronto server. They have been getting constant DDoS attacks for many months now. Their services are routinely down throughout the day due to this. Switch to the montreal or chicago server for better reliability.
--
Broadline Networks Inc.

reply to dillyhammer
I've been having lots of issues with Voip.ms in general. Have myself and 3 friends on them. 2 use an asterisk pbx, 2 are on spa-2102's.

All of us have had intermittent issues where incoming calls are not coming in, or we intermittently hear silence on the line, or audio drops out for a second or two then comes back.

The spa's are before the firewall so it's not a port issue. The asterisk boxes are behind a firewall but I have the normal port ranges forwarded.

I moved all of them over to chicago today, and put a backup in for montreal. will see if it improves.

reply to twizlar
Does this mean the Hamilton DC is also a poor location to Co-Locate with Carat?
--
"Recognize, Realize, and Repent"

That's incredibly disappointing. I was very impressed when I was there (for what the place was). It was rather unfortunate the key man behind the launch was brought into a suit over the use of the legal business name (trademark).

What's a good local place now? I was looking to re-colocate some Dell R410's for another project I am involved in... I'm looking to just set em and forget em as they are already in-service with Beanfield Metro Connect... Just looking for somewhere more cost effective and that will let me pre-pay a year in advance and let me have a small discount for a 3 or so year term.

Zacron
--
"Recognize, Realize, and Repent"

reply to dillyhammer
Yup, I'm bailing. This is too annoying.

It's truly annoying. This has been going on for weeks. Major problems first started occurring in October.

I think voip.ms needs to take the hint and get their shit out of there before it's starts costing them oodles of business.

Moving all my shit yet again. FML.

Mike
--
Cogeco - The New UBB Devil -»[Burloak] Usage Based Billing Nightmare
Cogeco UBB, No Modem Required - »[Niagara] 40gb of "usage" while the modem is unplugged

The voip.ms in Toronto has been troublesome for a loooooong time, they keep moving their server around, it used to be some other cheap DC before Carat. IMO if voip.ms wants Toronto presence it should be with a first grade colo facility/carrier like Beanfield: »bgp.he.net/AS21949#_peers. They have enough customers to warrant it. Until then I'm going to use the New York (Voxel DC) and Chicago (Ubiquity DC), those are both less than 25ms, have amazing connectivity, and rarely have issues.

reply to dillyhammer
just a word of warning if you switch to a US server. I discovered when my daughter consumed something she shouldn't have that not all emergency numbers are going to work (eg: Poison Control) if you use a server outside the country. That's why I switched back to Toronto from Chicago.

reply to BliZZardX
They have been with carat since they opened service in Toronto I believe. Carat used to be located in a different DC, that is probably the one you are talking about.

The main problem is that carat hosts quite a few torrent sites and they get DDoS'd all the time. Other than the DDoS's their network has decent transit.
--
Broadline Networks Inc.

reply to hagbard72
@hagbard, believe that is configurable from the control panel. Under Main menu > Account settings, make sure your toll free termination is set to Canadian carrier


--
Fiber Optics are the future of high-speed internet access. Stop by the BBR »Fiber Optic Forum.

reply to Tig

I've been with Montreal2 since shortly after I started using Voip.ms in 2011 because the Toronto connection even then was crap (and I live in Mississauga, literally a stone's throw from Toronto and not all that far from the Carat office in Hamilton)

NefCanuck

reply to dillyhammer
Chicago and Dallas are the two servers that I use, and the only reason I use Dallas for one of my DIDs is because it seems to work better for faxing than Chicago.

I learned early on that Toronto was not something worth touching. The rest, including Montreal and Montreal2, have been fine.

reply to dillyhammer
I've had nothing but issues with Toronto and Montreal, rock solid with Chicago. Constant echo, no ringing weirdness. All gone on Chicago.

The only issue I've had with Montreal2 is registration drops with an SPA-112, but seeing as how the SPA-112 is a piece of shit and all of them I had in service have been replaced with Obi202s that haven't exhibited the same issue, I am unsure if it is a server problem or just part of the SPA-112 being a piece of crap.