[ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:10 -0400, Klepinger, Aaron wrote:
> By the way, what BellSouth location do you work at?  :)

Which division, which region?  

-Jim P.

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> Michael B. Trausch
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> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > I heavily looked into doing the all VoIP at Home thing a few months ago.
> > In short the latency and packetloss issues of using either 256K DSL
> > (BellSouth) or 5Mb/384k Cable (Comcast) made it impossible to conduct 
> > a business call without seriously causing problems for people on the 
> > other end of the call or conference bridge.  Vonage is probably ok for
> 
> > limited use to call and order a pizza or such.  VoIP in general for 
> > broadband home users just isn't there (IMHO) for "realtime"
> > conversations where you don't have a 5 sec lag and you aren't
> constantly repeating things.
> > 
> > A really really bad TDMA cellphone connection is still better than 
> > broadband VoIP these days.  Tomorrow may change things as codecs are 
> > constantly improved and networks (hopefully) become more reliable.
> > 
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