anyone really using VOIP at home?
Let me know if you’re using VOIP at home. I have a friend over at Speakeasy and I’m thinking we may need to go over to their DSL service + VOIP. It would be cheaper to go DSL/VOIP w/ Speakeasy than my current set-up with SBC Yahoo!DSL + SBC Local and then we do Working Assets for Long Distance.
Plus, it seems like VOIP has a lot of cool features that we just don’t have.
I use Brighthouse (Time Warner) cable + AT&T CallVantage at home. I have been extremely impressed with AT&T’s customer service and the quality of our phone calls is great. The clincher was FTPing a large database while talking on the phone with one of our contractors. Super!
Comment by Jon — March 17, 2005 @ 6:03 am
I’m using Brighthouse/Time Warner’s VoIP service and I really like it. Its a little more expensive than Vonage or CallVantage but I like it because
it has dedicated bandwidth just for the phone because the MTA acts very much like a VoIP switch, for example im getting 5(or more depending)Mbps up even while im on the phone. And as an even further plus, it operates on your existing PSTN wiring, much like the way Avaya does Enterprise level VoIP.
All in all its a very good service, we didnt lose the fiber optic network during the hurricanes but we lost the PSTN because of the downed trunk lines and wireless wasnt working either because FEMA and the Police commandeered the Wireless telephone repeaters and noone could use their cellphones. So in theory I should be able to use it immediately after the next hurricane if there is one anytime soon without worrying about FEMA or the cops cutting access to the network or it just simply being destroyed.
Comment by Frank — April 21, 2005 @ 12:42 am