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Vonage I disagree with most of what mundy say's except the last part. Other users are probably
I disagree with most of what mundy say's except the last part. Other users are probably what is causing you the most problems.
Let me give you a scenario. My company is a small dial-up and wireless ISP in Iowa. We have a dedicated T1 to the Internet that is shared by about 20 of our wireless customers. Recently I decided it would be neat to do some playing arround so I took a Linksys WET11 over to our broadcast tower and connected up wirelessly to our service. I then connected my Vonage box to the WET11 and was able to get dialtone. Thinking this was pretty cool, I started to drive arround a little bit. Our omni's are on top of a watertower in our community which gives you an idea of their elevation. I was able to get about 8 blocks in one direction before I started to suffer problems with call quality.
The moral of the story? A properly configured wireless network fully supports Voip including Vonage. However, a T1 (1.54 Mbps), can at best support about 17 high quality Voip connections with no other traffic on it. Depending on how many users your local wireless provider supports it is quite likely that they are saturating the T1. With simple web browsing or the like, this is not important as you are usually willing to wait a few extra seconds for your web page to come up or a few extra minutes for your download. With Voip however any delay means poor or unusable audio. QOS is supposed to take care of this but it is still very much in it's infancy in design and implementation.
My recommendation to you might be to give it a try at a known slow time, maybe in the middle of the night or early morning, to see if it is any better. In any case it is probably likely you will not be a good candidate as a Voip customer until your ISP does some upgrades.
Hope this experience helped.
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• I live is a valley that does not have access to broadband so a local geek installed
• Lursen,
I can understand your frustration to a certain extent. However,
• E-Gads,
thank you for the informative experience. I suppose, in a perfect
• Wireless can work. I've used 802.11B (not even G) with my Vonage adapter. It mainly
E-Gads posted "I disagree with most of what mundy say's except the last part. Other users are probably" on 09/09/2005 |
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