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-Jim P.
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> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > I heavily looked into doing the all VoIP at Home thing a few months ago.
> > In short the latency and packetloss issues of using either 256K DSL
> > (BellSouth) or 5Mb/384k Cable (Comcast) made it impossible to conduct
> > a business call without seriously causing problems for people on the
> > other end of the call or conference bridge. Vonage is probably ok for
>
> > limited use to call and order a pizza or such. VoIP in general for
> > broadband home users just isn't there (IMHO) for "realtime"
> > conversations where you don't have a 5 sec lag and you aren't
> constantly repeating things.
> >
> > A really really bad TDMA cellphone connection is still better than
> > broadband VoIP these days. Tomorrow may change things as codecs are
> > constantly improved and networks (hopefully) become more reliable.
> >
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