Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Any good ones out there? Please don't include Vonage. Thanks.

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

They're all somewhat r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e, but after trying a couple of
providers, I'm sticking with my landline for now. Too much hiss and
high-pitched tone in the background from these services.

zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:
> Any good ones out there? Please don't include Vonage. Thanks.
>
>

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Thus spaketh Pat Coghlan:
> They're all somewhat r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e, but after trying a couple of
> providers, I'm sticking with my landline for now. Too much hiss and
> high-pitched tone in the background from these services.
>
> zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Any good ones out there? Please don't include Vonage. Thanks.


I get perfect sound, crystal clear, as good and better than a top-notch
landline.

People comment how clear the sound is.

--
www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Pat Coghlan <info@coghlan.ca> writes:
> They're all somewhat r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e, but after trying a couple of
> providers, I'm sticking with my landline for now. Too much hiss and
> high-pitched tone in the background from these services.

I believe you, but that shouldn't be. True end-to-end voip between a
pair of voip phones will be much cleaner than any POTS conversation.
After all the phone is doing the ulaw encoding in the phone a mere 3
or so feet away from the phone's microphone. You don't have 14kft of
wires to pick up stray signals before the ulaw conversion is done at
the telco.

For the best sound you do need to check that whatever service you are
using is using ulaw encoding. If they are sending compressed data,
you are going to get lower quality than pots.

-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

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I'm talking about noise when calling to the PSTN from a VoIP phone.

The remote (PSTN) party's complaints are that my voice muffled/distant.
On my end, I hear hiss and a high pitched tone when there should be dead
air. I've tried 2 different providers so far, including Vonage.

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Pat Coghlan <info@coghlan.ca> writes:
>
>> They're all somewhat r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e, but after trying a couple of
>> providers, I'm sticking with my landline for now. Too much hiss and
>> high-pitched tone in the background from these services.
>>
>
> I believe you, but that shouldn't be. True end-to-end voip between a
> pair of voip phones will be much cleaner than any POTS conversation.
> After all the phone is doing the ulaw encoding in the phone a mere 3
> or so feet away from the phone's microphone. You don't have 14kft of
> wires to pick up stray signals before the ulaw conversion is done at
> the telco.
>
> For the best sound you do need to check that whatever service you are
> using is using ulaw encoding. If they are sending compressed data,
> you are going to get lower quality than pots.
>
> -wolfgang
>

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> Pat Coghlan <info@coghlan.ca> writes:
>
>>They're all somewhat r-e-l-i-a-b-l-e, but after trying a couple of
>>providers, I'm sticking with my landline for now. Too much hiss and
>>high-pitched tone in the background from these services.
>
>
> I believe you, but that shouldn't be. True end-to-end voip between a
> pair of voip phones will be much cleaner than any POTS conversation.
> After all the phone is doing the ulaw encoding in the phone a mere 3
> or so feet away from the phone's microphone. You don't have 14kft of
> wires to pick up stray signals before the ulaw conversion is done at
> the telco.
>
> For the best sound you do need to check that whatever service you are
> using is using ulaw encoding. If they are sending compressed data,
> you are going to get lower quality than pots.
>
> -wolfgang

I agree with WSR. I use ATT CallVantage.

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Rick Merrill wrote:
> I use ATT CallVantage.

Me, too. :>)

Lena

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<zcarenow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1154966556.990557.239470@n13g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Any good ones out there? Please don't include Vonage. Thanks.
>

I've had good luck with

www.sipdiscount.com
www.voicestick.com
www.exgn.net (they really changed their name but that link should still
work)
www.voipjet.com

Good luck!

Re: Any suggestions on a reliable voip service?
 

Thus spaketh Jonathan Roberts:
> <zcarenow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1154966556.990557.239470@n13g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>> Any good ones out there? Please don't include Vonage. Thanks.
>>
>
> I've had good luck with
>
> www.sipdiscount.com

I use one of their sister services VoIP Stunt, has more free countries,
countries that I do from time to time call.

> www.voicestick.com
> www.exgn.net (they really changed their name but that link should
> still work)
> www.voipjet.com
>
> Good luck!

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Any of these hardware independent? Basically, do i have to use
specifically their equipment or can i get any router with phone ports.