[LUNI] Comcast bundle question

[Andrew Close]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM, bil Jeschke <theuteck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 14 February 2008 5:28:09 pm Jay Strauss wrote:
>  > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
>  > How's the sound quality for Vonage?  I tried telephone over IP about 7
>  > years ago and it left a lot to be desired in terms of sound quality.
>  >
>  > Also, isn't there some issue with 911 and IP phones?
>
>  The sound is good, provided you are not running lots of Bittorrents on your
>  network.  Vonage lets you control how much bandwidth calls use so slower
>  connections can use more compression.  Of course this lowers the quality, but
>  it still works.
>  For 911, you enter your address into your account so when you dial 911 the
>  call is routed proper and your address is passed on.  Not a big deal as some
>  would make it out to be.

i'll second that.  i've only once had an issue with a Vonage call, and
i happened to be downloading multiple torrents at the time :)  it was
weird cause i could hear everything thing fine (download is a much
fatter pipe than upload) but the person on the other end kept asking
me to repeat things because i was cutting out.
you have several ways to tweak your call settings as well.  through
the Vonage dashboard you can adjust the call quality; i keep mine at
the middle range level and it's perfectly fine.  if you have a more
recent or advanced router/switch or are running one of the third party
linux installations on your router you can use the bandwidth shaping
features that will always keep a segment of your upload/download
available for phone use, or whatever.  i haven't bothered to really
look into the second option because i really don't have any issues
with with our phone quality.

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Andrew Close