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On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:04:26 GMT, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> mused:
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>ian wrote:
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>> Thanks everyone for the responses. Most of them were as expected (except
>> for the comments about VoIP quality not being very good[/color]
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>Oh come on. It can sound like talking through a tube. Correction, it usually
>does sound like talking through a tube ! Certainly true of Skype and the other
>VoIP providers I experimented with in the distant plast.
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Distant past? In general it's no better or no worse than some BT lines
IME.
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>> and being comparatively expensive -- this is quite the opposite of my
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>How much do you pay for VoIP ?
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>Graham[/color]
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Regards,
Stuart.

On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:45:35 GMT, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> mused:
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>Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> writes:[color=darkred]
>> > ian wrote:
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>> >> Thanks everyone for the responses. Most of them were as expected (except
>> >> for the comments about VoIP quality not being very good
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>> > Oh come on. It can sound like talking through a tube. Correction, it usually
>> > does sound like talking through a tube ! Certainly true of Skype and the other
>> > VoIP providers I experimented with in the distant plast.[/color]
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>> I've always found VoIP to be significantly better quality than
>> calling over the phone system.[/color]
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>What brand phone do you use ? I've found huge differences there. Nothing can beat
>BT's phone in my experience to ensure a clear call.
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I personally try and avoid BT phones, I find the gain on them useless
so I can hardly hear. Also quality wise I find them poor, buttons
aren't generally all that good and the phones start doing their own
thing after a while. This is more for DECT phones than wired handsets,
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>> Skype is quite different from the VoIP standards -- don't get them mixed up.[/color]
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>I've also heard what I took to be corporate VoIP connections that were simply
>shockingly bad. They sounded like they'd gone through an echoey distortion box and
>often cut out for seconds at a time.
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What was bad though? Was it bad VoIP provider, bad equipment on site,
bad setting up of good equipment, bad selection of DSL services etc...
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Regards,
Stuart.

> Oh come on. It can sound like talking through a tube. Correction, it[color=blue]
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> does sound like talking through a tube ! Certainly true of Skype and the
> other
> VoIP providers I experimented with in the distant plast.[/color]

I have tried quite a lot VOIP providers, and quality can indeed vary. But
if you use a decent ADSL or cable provider, a decent VOIP provider, and you
use a decent codec (G711) with a good ATA, I can tell you that the quality
is really good - and I am very critical about these things.

Forget about "free" providers, USB phones, and so on... you get what you
pay for.