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Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?         


Date: Aug 9, 2006 17:51

Patrick Coghlan writes:
> Vonage never suggested changing the default encoding algorithm as a
> way to eliminate the background hiss from quiet periods.

Vonage's business model may very well require that they compress the
hell out of the audio stream. The bandwidth is cheaper for them that
way (although it costs a bit more in CPU time to expand it again to
ulaw when they gateway it into the PSTN).

-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
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Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?         


Author: DevilsPGD
Date: Aug 9, 2006 22:14

In message <87ac6ds9ah.fsf@bonnet.wsrcc.com> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:
>
>Patrick Coghlan writes:
>> Vonage never suggested changing the default encoding algorithm as a
>> way to eliminate the background hiss from quiet periods.
>
>Vonage's business model may very well require that they compress the
>hell out of the audio stream. The bandwidth is cheaper for them that
>way (although it costs a bit more in CPU time to expand it again to
>ulaw when they gateway it into the PSTN).

So it all depends on what's cheaper today, bandwidth or CPU power.

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Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?         


Author: Enzo Michelangeli
Date: Aug 9, 2006 23:40

gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155140002.730669.271580@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
[...]
> Yes, Teliax is also good. I have had some weird billing issues with
> them but they always fix them within 1-2 days. So all in all, not bad.
>
> I like Sipdiscount a lot. I route all of my US calling through it and
> also call 2 destinations in Europe. No problems so far.

If you replace Sipdiscount with VoipStunt or, better (for the time being),
VoipDiscount, you will enjoy the same quality (the servers are the same) but
also gain a longer list of sort-of-free destinations: at the moment, 35 and
48 respectively vs Sipdiscount's 17. It is true that the support for SIP is
unofficial (they tend to push their free softphone which uses a proprietary
protocol) but it works fine. On the other hand, no more IAX2 since they
passed to TVIconnect's gateways, which are not based on Asterisk.

By the way, has anybody tried Globotech
(http://www.gtcomm.net/en/voipwholesale.php )? They do pay-as-you-go and
their rates appear quite attractive.
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