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Is VoIP ready for the real world?

Blaster99 · 2006-03-07 11:13:53

I've been using a few SIP services with different hardware and different ISP's and I'm using Skype quite a bit and it strikes me that the VoIP codecs are much more sensitive to connection issues where the call quality often suffers from echo, jitter, complete breakups, and lag. On the other hand, Skype-to-Skype calls are…

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#52 11-03-2006 11:37pm

JimmySmith

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aaronc wrote:

Yes, you just call somebody.

Aaron

I see - Now i understand why Blueface are having call quality issues as compared to broadtalk etc. Possibly braodtalk etc know how to test properly.

What you have described is not a test at all. I really hope you weren't serious.

You should understand that that calling someboby lets you know how they sound to you (downstream) only, not how you sound to them (upstream).

By what your are suggesting i would have to ask the person on the other side of the phone call what it sounds like. Not a good idea. They could be deaf, have earwax, have faulty equipment and report faults and problems that are on their end and nothing to do with the connection between myslef and blueface.

A better test would be to call blueface and blueface to play your voice back to you giving you time (about 10 seconds at a time should be enough) to actually listen to how your voice sounds being played back.

Now using this method its hard to tell if there are problems whether they are happening going up or down but it does give you an indication as to the quality of the link between yourself and blueface. Regardless of whether the problem is up or down, if a punter gets a bad quality call here then there is definitely some work to be done before they consider voip as their only phone.

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