It's all about latency. The roundtrip ping times across my DSL circuit (Verizon ATM cloud) to my ISP's router (One hop away) are approx 25ms. My ISP has a PRI which I use for all incoming and local outgoing calls. For these calls the quality is better than when I had an analog phone at home.
For most of my LD calls I use a budget 1 cent per minute VoIP provider. (*For calls where I absolutely need quality, I send those across the PRI as well.) The call quality isn't nearly as good when routing the calls over the internet, but it shouldn't be expected. I get what I pay for. I'll bet if I purchased a point-to-point circuit to the budget VoIP provider the calls would sound wonderful, but of course that is cost prohibitive. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
