I am fairly educated about this new technology but from a biased point of view... just wondering if anyone knows about any drawbacks or has any issues with it?
Someone just posted an interesting thread on my forum about how Skype and other applications using VoIP technology can be used by malicious attackers to cover their tracks and launch attacks. Here's the thread if you're interested http://forum.digitalmeltd0wn.org/showthread.php?t=761 I haven't heard much bad news, except that many people have had problems receiving timely support from Skype involving issues with Skypeout credits. I hope that one day someone will develop a program using VoIP technology that will allow incoming and outgoing calls from Computer to land/cell phones and vice versa.
This pretty well sums it up. I've been a Vonage customer for several years - no legacy telco biz here... http://pingplotter.com/solutions.html Voice over IP (VoIP) VoIP is still an emerging technology - and network latency and packet loss both have an enormous effect on VoIP call quality. PingPlotter offers unique insight into network problems, giving *anyone* the ability to pinpoint the problem. If you're a VoIP customer: Often, as an end user, you might experience poor voice quality - echoes, delays, poor sound quality, or just the inability to hear the other person talking. These are all symptoms of network problems, but an end user usually doesn't have the right tools to identify the source of the network problem, the nature of the network problem, or even if it is a network problem. PingPlotter changes this, allowing anyone to troubleshoot network problems. In fact, some VoIP providers have a prospective customer download and run PingPlotter to see if there will be any issues on that customer's Internet connection before he/she signs up for service. If you�re an existing VoIP customer, you can run PingPlotter unobtrusively during a VoIP call, and when voice quality deteriorates, PingPlotter will show you where and why.
The thing is, i'm selling vonage right now and so obviously i've been trained into what an awsome product it is, but i know that one day someone is going to come up with some huge problem they've had or heard about and I'm trying to find out what the problems are so i can be prepared for that, aslo i'd love to be able to sell it to my family and friends but i don't know enough about the con's of the tech. and wouldn't want to sell something to my family thinking it's an amazing product and then find out from them that it has soo many problems.... know what i mean?
In this part of the World by far the largest prob is latency (esp in the DFW area w/aohell's part of the party). Packet loss isn't a real prob. Checkout http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip Good stuff along w/a healthy dose of bull...*c*
VOIP is very fragile... if you have a 1Mbit connection, you can already run into troubles quickly because it doesnt have enough resources when u are trying to download ur mail or if u download something... Quality is usually very good tho Like with Skype, quality is great from computer to computer, and from computer to normal phone has the same quality as a normal phone
see we know that there are problems for people trying to use voip on a 'lite' package so we don't sell it to them, we tell them that they need a high speed connection
yeah well, you cant expect all people to have 10Mbit connections in their homes to guarantee quality, VOIP will always be fragile and dependant of alot of factors, no doubt about it... VOIP isnt really 100% secure yet either
