mtnsprfarm Posted June 14, 2005 CID Share Posted June 14, 2005 :angry5:I hve had the direcway 6000 less than 6 months.I recently purchased a vonage phone. The remote area where I live has no land line phone lines. Cell phone service is fair. My problem is my upload speed is too slow.0.7. If I move my dish on top of the house will my upload and download speeds be better? If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. mtnsprfarm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggr3 Posted June 14, 2005 CID Share Posted June 14, 2005 mtnsprfarm ...welcome to the forum... And the odds are ..vonage isn't going to work with Dway....at least no one in this forum has gotten it to work. The slow U/L and D/l speeds are only a part of it....the large latency time also plays a big factor...the Dway forum has more info on this...just do a search for vonage at the top of the page.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbaker397 Posted June 14, 2005 CID Share Posted June 14, 2005 yea, i doubt it could work, correct me if im wronmg but vonage is one of the hoggier VoIP providers, needing about 80-90 kb/s i think? I dunno, but i know for a fact Dway doesnt hit those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutest Posted June 14, 2005 CID Share Posted June 14, 2005 even if you get it to work, the voip phone will still have echos, latency, chopiness etc etc .. Good Luck ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 14, 2005 CID Share Posted June 14, 2005 I would suggest Skype (www.skype.com). This is free for Skype-to-Skype users and costs for Skype "In" and "Out"... The technology is much less band width intensive than Vonage (which I use as my primary home phone)... The quality is also much better than a "regular" pot line... I was shocked today when I was using it on a shared ISDN connection (128k) and it was working fine... With Voip (vonage) (which would never work on ISDN) you really have to have packet/port priority for it to work half way decent, with Skype, I've found I don't even need to do that... Best of Luck...Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwt1966 Posted September 30, 2006 CID Share Posted September 30, 2006 i have vonage phone and it takes a 100 on your upload at least but lower your bandwidth on von. to loose the echo.i have the highest speed adelphia has and i bought a linksys beefcmu10 modem and it helped a great deal..................i hope this will help you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted September 30, 2006 CID Share Posted September 30, 2006 Talk about thread resurection...lol Welcome to the Forum dwt1966!! Oh and Vonage doesn't work on Hughes/Dway at all. Try Netzero or Crystal Voice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datatechnician Posted October 8, 2006 CID Share Posted October 8, 2006 You could also Try.. http://www.voicestick.com http://www.net2phone.com I have and continue to use both of these services and also Skype. I mainly use cellphone as my primary service though.. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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