I've been using voip across my network for years now. One of the things we did about four years ago was build our own voip server (*) and hand out pap2's to about 100 subs for testing. We gave them free outgoing telephone service.
Thats when we really learned how good the quality of voip is across our network and then started rebuilding our network to accomadate voip. I think to do voip, cheap ap's and bridged stuff won't help the quality. I believe the ap's routers all have to have the qos features to keep the quality high. The vast majority of our network voip sounds great. I have a pap2 here and 4 hops out from the * server my voip sounds as good as any phone. I tried Vonage back in 2001 and have since used 8x8 and BroadVoice for some special customer situations. What we found with Vonage on our network is we make their vonage router be the main router at the customer premises and give it a public and it sounds great. If we give the sub a switch or cheap router and then plug the vonage router into it's lan port then the quality suffers, even if the Vonage router has a public. Right now we are testing vox (a WISPA vendor member), and I'm pretty certain we won't be seeing Vonage as often, if I can help it. David E. Smith wrote: >> What doesn't work with Vonage? >> Is it the quality of the call or the service itself? > > Probably call quality. > > Anecdotal evidence ahoy! > > One of my field techs, who has our wireless service at his home, tried > Vonage for a few months, but the call quality was lousy. He later switched > to Packet 8 and has been quite happy with it. > > We've also discovered that some brands work better when they're "exposed" > (i.e. with a public IP address), and some are better behind a NATting > router. Packet 8, for instance, seemed to work infinitely better behind a > router than when the device had a public IP. The Vonage appliance, as I > recall, was just the opposite. > > As I recall, Packet 8 was five bucks a month cheaper than Vonage too, but > didn't have quite as good a selection of local numbers. > > (This is all second-hand -- I just use my cell phone for most things and a > Skype account for the rare international call.) > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
