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Posted by on March 10, 2008, 11:17 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > pattyja...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Question: Have any ideas if I should even try another VOIP provider?
> > Does the location or presence of a VOIP provider "central office" of
> > sorts being closer to me have any bearing on call quality????
>
> Frankly, if Vonage didn't work for you, then I think the problem is most
> likely that you have your ATA behind a router and it is configured incorre=
ctly
> or your ISP is messing with SIP and RTP to give advantage to their own ser=
vice
> [which is most likely not legal].
>
> I use Viatalk and am VERY happy with them. =A0I have a teenage daughter an=
d in
> the last 30 days, my line has seen:
>
> =A0Total minutes used in this date range: 3324 minutes
>
> I have not had a single complaint from my Daughter this month and she
> occasionally uses the three way calling feature. =A0The only issue we have=
had
> at all is the occasional call to or from a cell phone will leave the
> cell phone end hearing their voice occasionally [and only mildly] echoed b=
ack
> at them. =A0I am sure that is an interaction between echo canceling softwa=
re in
> the VOIP ATA and the cell/pcs tower; definitely not an issue 99% of the ti=
me
> with cell phones [I call home all the time]. =A0If you don't know what you=
are
> doing, then just call them up, explain your setup and get the provisioned =
ATA
> from them at a nice price of $199 / year with a second year free and a sec=
ond
> line free [I am sure you have to pay for that second line after two years
> ;-)]. =A0I pay taxes every month of $3.45, but you can put in the comments=
when
> you sign-up that you would like to prepay those as well and they will add =
that
> to the charge [the advantage is that if they ever increase those rates, yo=
u
> are covered].
>
> --
> Thomas T. Veldhouse
>
> =A0 In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful =
Dead.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-- Egyptian Book of the Dead
May try that Thomas. Thank you.
I am pretty technical and all is set up fine. It may be that my
provider (Time Warner) is indeed giving preference to their own
service as you say. I notice that the ATA has to find another port
than 5060 or 5061 which is blocked by the provider, so the Linksys ATA
uses 6000. I found this out when I tried one of the speedtests online
and took the router out of the equation and also with NO firewall
software running in XP.
Will try Callcentric and my Pap2 at a friends house who also has
RoadRunner b4 I try Viatalk.
I have a lot of latency issues where I live for some reason (could be
overloaded switch I may be on) and some timeouts on ping's. Also QOS
(fragmented packets) and download speed widely varies from day to day.
Had them check it out 2x and they said it is fine and nothing they can
do. I am held captive since there is no other Cable provider.
Appreciate it
Patty
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