I've had Broadvoice for over a year now, and although their outages are really annoying, the fact that their service costs $20/month unlimited is what keeps me with them..
I have 2 Inbound #'s through them (same account), one in GA (678-253) and one in CT (203-935), and overall their inbound has been more reliable than their outbound (minus the past week or so).. I have my dialplan try BV first, and then if it cannot use BV for outbound, it rolls to my pots line(s).. It actually works really well, except that if BV goes completely toes up Asterisk decides that it doesn't want to do anything either :-( That is what I find the most annoying, quite frankly, BV is having Growing pains (in my opinion), and I can accept that, haven't put anything critical on my BV inbound, and 90% of the time BV outbound works fine.. The rest of the time, the pots take care of outbound, and anyone who calls me calls on my pots lines (except for family in GA, which is why I have the GA #). For me personally, I just think VOIP is 'too' early in the maturity curve to really rely on it as a provider.. It's great in-house (medium/large companies), but for service, I think pots are the way to have rock solid service for the time being. I know of two of my friends that have Vonage as their only inbound numbers (not via asterisk, via the vonage locked adapters, so it is completely vonange), and their service also has issues at times.. Granted, I'm not sure if it's a true vonage issue, or their internet connection, but nonetheless, there are still issues.. If I could get Asterisk so it just work continue 'working' properly with whatever SIP connections it can reach, I'd be a happy man.. Don't get me wrong, I think Broadvoice needs to communicate better with their customer base, and the latest ongoing outage is, to say the least, very frustrating, but I am willing to cut them some slack because I think VOIP is still in it's infancy, and broadvoice is the only BYOD provider I know that will give unlimited for $20.00/month.. - Andre -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Johnathan Corgan Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:58 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Who's happy with their voip service? JD wrote: > Inbound > calling has been down for 2 days. Just FYI, mine is back up (408-903) as of about five hours ago. I did just speak with a (Broadvoice) support tech on an entirely unrelated matter (40 min. hold time!), mentioned mine was working, and he seemed to think things were coming back in stages. I've had them for two months now. People may recall a series of emails regarding packet loss through their PNAP link to Sprintlink (my ex-ISP backbone.) I ditched the Sprint BBD fixed-wireless service, got Sonic.net DSL, and have been enjoying pretty high quality voice service since. The packet loss rates at PNAP still show but I think now this shows it's an artificial measure (intentionally dropped non-VOIP packets, all the other potential reasons hashed about in that thread.) In spite of the service outages and long hold times for support, I still want to give them the benefit of the doubt (and my $25 monthly.) It still seems like growing pains vs. incompetency. I tried their web interface to change DIDs, as they now have them in my home area code. The effect was instant, I reconfigured sip.conf with the new number and secret they provide, and something like 3 minutes later was using the new DID. So some things do work well. Wish they did IAX. And ILBC. Not that important to me right now, though. -Johnathan _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
