[ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

[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.
> 

So, in short, it wouldn't be good for general contact, is that right?

Are there no codecs that can adequately compress to telephone standard
quality?  I thought that was in the single-digit kb/sec range?  Am I
wrong in that?

How much bandwidth does a single call require?

	- Mike

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