Swimmer Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 Hey is anyone here running VoIP? Let me know what you think.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 I've got Vonage whooohoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCobra Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 I'm running Verizon VoiceWing (one week now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 1, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 that is very interesting.. what router are you running it though? Have you tried downloading and talking on the phone at the same time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCobra Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 that is very interesting.. what router are you running it though? Have you tried downloading and talking on the phone at the same time? I'm not using a consumer grade router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 1, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 what software are you using for routing? U using smoothwall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCobra Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 FYI, in case anyone else is interested, my final test today worked out nicely. I did a LiveMeeting meeting where I was the presenter, did desktop sharing, etc. Everything work out well so I'm moving full steam ahead porting my old number. And I took the security discussion offline. I'm too paranoid to discuss my stuff in a public forum. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantom Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 Hey: I'm also using vonage Viop.... No issues...... Great and great price. HOWEVER, make sure you ahve the bandwidth. I have 1mps up so it's not an issue. If your 256 you could hit a wall much faster... I've run gaming, hosted server and had phones working. All fine. If I'm really pumping everything AND I upload a huge file, the file goes slower, but everthing else is fine. Also extra phone lines are cheap and you can route them so thats really a nice function, allong with having voicemail on your computer. Get it!!! Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grambler Posted August 1, 2005 CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 I have been on Vonage since 9/04 on a 3M/256 connection. No problems at all unless Charter cable goes down....rare. My daughter also has it in her dorm at college. what a money saver. Would recomend it to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 1, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 1, 2005 Hahaha.. that is an awesome idea.. VoIP at college.. my guess is that you will also get QoS priority depending on what type of gear the college is running.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 * Bump * Yeah, I know, but it needed to be done lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 * Bump * Yeah, I know, but it needed to be done lol Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 Why? There's a new member that needs some assistance w/ there voip, so , why not resurrect the thread, besides, there are many others that have asked similar questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 There's a new member that needs some assistance w/ there voip, so , why not resurrect the thread, besides, there are many others that have asked similar questions. ok... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saygoodie Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 I have it with roadrunner, it works great. It only stopped when our cable modem stopped working for half a day. a very sad half day.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 Concerning troubles with Vonage My internet provider is Shoreham.net, small pop&mom operation,our only choice When I tested Bandwith this morning the results were 133.16 kilobits per second &16.25 kilobytes per second For Components I have 2 Vonage modem devises, 2 Linksys routers one is Etherfast cable/DSL Router, the other is Wirelsess G 2.4 GHZ Broad Band Router and a 5 Port work group switch. Also a note of interest is that I do a fair amount of speed tests and my download is always consistent in the 1000-1100kbs range. The upload on the other hand varies greatly from 100-600 kbs range and my provider doesn't seem to have an explanation for this variation. Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 Concerning troubles with Vonage My internet provider is Shoreham.net, small pop&mom operation,our only choice When I tested Bandwith this morning the results were 133.16 kilobits per second &16.25 kilobytes per second For Components I have 2 Vonage modem devises, 2 Linksys routers one is Etherfast cable/DSL Router, the other is Wirelsess G 2.4 GHZ Broad Band Router and a 5 Port work group switch. Also a note of interest is that I do a fair amount of speed tests and my download is always consistent in the 1000-1100kbs range. The upload on the other hand varies greatly from 100-600 kbs range and my provider doesn't seem to have an explanation for this variation. Thanks for the help Well go ahead and do a dual test here, and post it, then we'll start there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 OK Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 10, 2008 CID Share Posted April 10, 2008 I have it with roadrunner, it works great. It only stopped when our cable modem stopped working for half a day. a very sad half day.. I have Vonage, with roadrunner, never had any issues other than the need to use there GUI to set the B/W allowed for VIOP. I had Vonage way before they started the roadrunner voip service, or I am sure I would have rr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 550 Kbps about 0.55 Mbps (tested with 600 kB) Download Speed is:: 67 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 420 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 748 kB) Upload Speed is:: 51 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/11 - 8:19am D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-RLT495GSY U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-61R9JQAXG User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 I thought I would do another test as you can see there seems to be a lot of inconsistency with my provider ::Your connection is: 1000 Kbps or 1 Mbps You downloaded at: 122 kB/s You are running: 17 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 8.39 second(s) Member Ident:Username:itchiemitten CompID:191342483447 Test Time:: 2008/04/11 - 8:30am Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Test ID: M6O843YQA (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 27.55 % faster than the average for host (shoreham.net) This was tested from a 1000 kB file and took 8.188 seconds to complete :.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 1074 Kbps about 1.07 Mbps (tested with 1000 kB) Download Speed is:: 131 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 603 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Upload Speed is:: 74 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/11 - 8:26am D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-AE8FTBQNS U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-XOEUN6M8I User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 Have you gone to Vonage.com and went to " feature > bandwidth saver , and moved the adjuster to the top level ? Try that first , you should have plenty of bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 Just recently I went to the lowest level on the Bandwith saver section and that didn't seem to help my problem. Should I change it back to the high level? I have done several speed test in the past and the download speed in fairly consistent, but the upload speed varies greatly from under 100 to 600. Could that have an impact? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 Considering the highest amount of B/W they have a setting for is 90 kbps , you should be fine unless you are downloading heavy during a call. The higher the settings , the more B/W is given, therefore the better the sound. So in your case , it seems a bit strange that you have better sound quality w/ the lower settings. Why do you have two voip routers again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchiemitten Posted April 11, 2008 CID Share Posted April 11, 2008 I will go ahead and move them up to 90. I have 2 vonage devices because I have 2 vonage lines. Actually I have 3 vonage lines, but currently the 3rd one is offsite as I have an employee that works remotely. I have the 2 linksys routers and workgroup switch because I need all those ports to run the phones computers etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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