Vonage in Mexico

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 2

I have seen some of the issues that people have had with DSL and Telmex in Mexico, but has there been any issues with using Vonage over cable internet in Mexico?

Posts: 135 · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

cable internet in mexico?

I think there will be no issues with that

just make sure your ISP doenst block Voip services

Posts: 253 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: May 23, 2006 Posts: 253

agreed.
If the isp dont block Voip, it will work perfectly.
unlike Telmex before, they do but as far as I know
they are working on it. Wink

Posts: 433 · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject:

I have been in Mexico for over 2 months and have not had any problems using Vonage with my cable ISP. My ISP is Megacable. I am actually quite suprised how well it works!! I have 1Mbps down and around 250Kbps up.
Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 985392 bps
Upload speed: 245928 bps
Quality of service: 99 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum download pause: 40 ms
Average download pause: 33 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 89 ms
Average round trip time to server: 187 ms

Voip test statistics
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Jitter: you --> server: 6.6 ms
Jitter: server --> you: 8.0 ms
Packet loss: you --> server: 0.0 %
Packet loss: server --> you: 0.0 %
Packet discards: 0.0 %
Packets out of order: 0.0 %
Number of supported Voip lines: 4
Estimated MOS score: 3.9

Posts: 135 · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:23 am Post subject:

thanks for the info, but have you tried to ask your ISP if they are not blocking Voip services?

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 2

Ultravision told me that they don't block, so I should be OK.

Posts: 135 · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:47 am Post subject:

well yeah just install the device,
i believe it's cable internet so you dont have to configure on the connections,
just plug and play the device and i believe you will have dial tone

Posts: 433 · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:54 am Post subject:

Have I tried to ask my ISP? No, I assume they don't block Voip since mine works like a dream. But who knows, maybe i am doing something illegal. Lol

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: 1067965810 Posts: 7

I have Megared and a Vonage box w/ a linksys router running dd-wrt with no problems.
Of course, when Megared becomes Mierdared nothing works.

It's in Guadalajara BTW, I wish Vonage offered virtual numbers with the area code of 33 in Mexico.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 19, 2007 Posts: 3

I used Vonage and Telecable (in Guadalajara) and worked beautifully for over a year, just 3 weeks ago I started having problems. At first Telecable said they were not blocking Voip but after calling them at least 10 times a new employee admited that telecable is now blocking some UDP ports claiming that they were getting lots of viruses through those ports. In Zapopan seems that there are only 2 high speed internet options, Prodigy (Telmex) and Telecable. Any idea on the forum how can I overcome this problem? My phone has not worked for 3 weeks now. Cry