"Salvador Freemanson" <spam@gohome.com> wrote in message
news:45efe56f$0$24784$426a34cc@news.free.fr

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> Don't listen to people who tell you the Internet is
> distance independent. It isn't. When used for VOIP it can
> introduce a very big latency time, which makes the
> conversation more like a walky-talky ("over to you") than
> an interactive phone chat with people interrrupting each
> other all the time.[/color]

*Can* being the operative word. That doesn't mean it will. I have rarely
encountered a problem with SIP even when calling people in the USA and
other parts of the world.

Make sure you have QoS (Quality of Service) on your router, it can make a
big difference in this respect by prioritisng the VoIP traffic. Uesful if
the connection is also used for downloading at the same time.

Ivor