[email]chrisips2@gmail.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi[/color]
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> I use Voipfone and FWD mainly for my voice calls. If I call someone
> in the UK (I live in the UK) using Voipfone all is well. If I use fwd
> to call someone in the UK there is a very slight delay. This can be
> demonstrated using a UK echo test with both Voipfone and FWD.[/color]
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> My question is, why should there be a sound delay using a US service.
> I understood that whilst the call set-up is in the US the actual call
> is peer-to-peer?[/color]

Not if you have it setup to use their "Outbound Proxy" and it's
proxying the audio stream through there. It also adds a lot of
unreliability to the setup too from my experience (their audio proxy
goes down a lot it seems).