Remember there are other DSL providers out there besides Bell.
I have one who sells me a pipe - no spam controls "for my protection", etc. and whose Terms Of Service actually permit me to run a server. Their technical support has been OUTSTANDING. Once when a customer failed to get an email on the Berry, I traced the postfix logs, found the "250" to the ISP, called them with the ID number, they provided me the "250" message from their logs with Bell's Blackberry server proving it to be Bell's problem. All in 10 minutes talking to ONE knowledgeable technician. My service has only been down for 2 outages totalling 12 hours and one of them was because I forgot to tell them my CC number when I got a new card so their auto-billing program shut me off which is certainly not their fault. There are some good ones out there. You just have to look. -dbc. From: Mike Ashton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December-24-08 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Rogers Cable Internet Vs. Bell ADSL Internet Henry, Yes, that was my theory for having both with a load balancing router. But in 5 years I've only had my cable out for maybe 30 hours, an even though it is DHCP, my IP only changes about once every 6 months. The DSL was nothing but a headache, poor customer support ( and yes Rogers is no better ), IP changes anywhere from every few hours to longest of about a week. But when it changes every few hours it also drops all traffic that was in progress, which was the real deal breaker for me. My neighbour has DSL and I have a strong WiFI connection to his network that in the odd case if the cable goes down, I can just change my gateway IP and utilize the network bridge. G726, I've not played with lately, since I really don't need the extra headroom on the bandwidth. But should give it another look some time soon. Henry L.Coleman wrote: Mike, have you tried G726 ? According to the pundits it has pretty good quality at around half the bandwidth, and uses much less CPU than G723 etc. It would be nice to get as many channels as a T1 for $50 a pop ! :) Anyway there is a case for having both DSL and Cable which is that it's not unusual for either DSL or Cable to go down but it would be very unusual for both to go down at the same time. ================================= Henry L.Coleman [www.VoIP-PBX.ca] Tel: 647-723-5160 Ext.203 ================================= { Mike Ashton} I have both ADSL & Cable (Express not Extreme ) here. I have had many issues with Bell DSL for voip and almost no issues with Rogers. And with the added hassles of pppoe, the IP constantly changing and the connection resetting, So I just cancelled my DSL this month, not worth the hassle. I have as many as 4 concurrent G711 calls going and the only time I have any issue is when a large upload process starts and it takes a few seconds for the router to throttle the process. Mike TianLun Song wrote: HI you all, A quick question. Do you guys know which internet service is better in terms of the quality of voice? thank you -- Mike Ashton Quality Track Intl CTO Ph: 647-724-3500 x 301 Cell: 416-527-4995 Fax: 416-352-6043 QTI CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION The contents of this material are confidential and proprietary to Quality Track International, Inc. and may not be reproduced, disclosed, distributed or used without the express permission of an authorized representative of QTI. Use for any purpose or in any manner other than that expressly authorized is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and all copies, and promptly notify the sender. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Mike Ashton Quality Track Intl CTO Ph: 647-724-3500 x 301 Cell: 416-527-4995 Fax: 416-352-6043 QTI CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION The contents of this material are confidential and proprietary to Quality Track International, Inc. and may not be reproduced, disclosed, distributed or used without the express permission of an authorized representative of QTI. Use for any purpose or in any manner other than that expressly authorized is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and all copies, and promptly notify the sender.
