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Michael B. Trausch
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Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] VoIP recommendations

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Jim Popovitch wrote:
&gt; I heavily looked into doing the all VoIP at Home thing a few months ago.
&gt; In short the latency and packetloss issues of using either 256K DSL
&gt; (BellSouth) or 5Mb/384k Cable (Comcast) made it impossible to conduct 
&gt; a business call without seriously causing problems for people on the 
&gt; other end of the call or conference bridge.  Vonage is probably ok for

&gt; limited use to call and order a pizza or such.  VoIP in general for 
&gt; broadband home users just isn't there (IMHO) for &quot;realtime&quot; 
&gt; conversations where you don't have a 5 sec lag and you aren't
constantly repeating things.
&gt; 
&gt; A really really bad TDMA cellphone connection is still better than 
&gt; broadband VoIP these days.  Tomorrow may change things as codecs are 
&gt; constantly improved and networks (hopefully) become more reliable.
&gt; 


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