On 2011-03-29 16:30, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
Looking to save some money and drop my Optimum Voice which is $20 a
month for a cheaper VoIP service which is $10 or less a month.
netTALK is $70 for 1 year service and Hardware, then $30 year after
that. Does not need a PC. Seems to work like Vontage:
http://www.nettalk.com/
But is it any good? does anyone have any experiences?
Also are there any secrets to setting up your home router to make sure
calls are not dropped and or good quality?
VoIP mostly uses UDP, and almost all of the firewall rules you'd be
interested in are most likely for TCP. You COULD do QoS stuff at home
if you WANTED to in order to prioritize the VoIP traffic, but far as I
know it's not necessary.
Does anyone have any experience on Cablevision and using VoIP that is
not Optimum Voice? aka do they make those packets get more lost then
normal traffic?
I've been told (by non-authoritative sources only) that Cablevision
gives a higher priority to their own VoIP implementation than for other
VoIP traffic, which seems logical and expected. I had a VoIP service I
was testing for a friend for a while a couple of years ago (a "VoIP box"
that connected to our internal network) and used it for about a month or
two when connected to TWC, and surprisingly we never had any trouble
with it. The service we used has since gone belly-up and are now out of
business, but at least showed that "hardware" VoIP was viable on cable.
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