Bandwidth used by service

Posts: 4 · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: Bandwidth used by service

Wondering how much bandwidth the vonage service uses... are the rtp headers sqeezed, etc...? Also, are the properties of the IP traffic public enough to be able to use some sort of softphone with the vonage service? (I realize that the ATA is all-around the best way to go, but voip to the desktop would be fun to play with)

I hope this service really takes off - its too damn cool not to. I'm pretty damn close to singing up for it just for the gee-whiz factor Smile

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:09 pm Post subject:

blinky lights? I'm sold! Smile

Yea, the softphone thing would just be cool to play with.

90Kbps is actually pretty fat for a voice connection, bit suprising to see that, but then again, most people would never miss 90 off their existing bandwidth, and its easier to ensure voice quality with more bandwidth.

Posts: 4 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:39 am Post subject:

Cool - I'm in a similar situation Smile

and had some concerns about that.

Posts: 44 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:56 am Post subject:

I'd just like to re-iterate what antipas has said.
I use my vonage on my DSL line (I also have cable, it works equally well on that too) - the DSL is usually very busy (FTP server, mail server, game servers etc) and I still get top quality calls. I think you'd really have to be hammering your broadband connection to get it to deteriorate.