[LUNA] [(way) OT]: VOIP/POTS

[Bob Nance]

We use VoIP in one of our offices running over cable internet. 90% of the time, it’s great (and is very inexpensive, since we are already paying for the ISP circuit). The other 10%, it is choppy, warbled and completely drops out. This is frustrating to the office workers, the callers and me (who hears from both).

We are, eventually, going to upgrade to a synchronous service (MetroLAN or similar) and use the cable internet for it’s raw speed and the other service for the VoIP. Overall, while I use it, I am waiting for the day I can afford the better service to carry it.

+1 for price (and cool features of VoIP that you can’t do with POTS)
-1 for quality and reliability.

-Bob

PS When a political call comes over the VoIP line, quality is not an issue. When your mom calls, it is.


On Feb 29, 2016, at 9:30 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net<mailto:wam at hiwaay.net>> wrote:



Slow list, so .... I am interested in using voip to replace my AT&T phone line. I have Wowway internet, seems to work AOK. I would like to use it to place & receive calls from my in-house POTS phones. Feasible ? URL's ? Experience/gotcha's ? I was planning on using a RPi running NetBSD & Asterisk, but I think there is a bit more info/setup required. I have googled up some info, but most of it is going over my head. The key detail is I want to use my existing in-house phones/jacks & have them operate in/out over my cable-internet. *Any* help appreciated. TIA & have a good one.


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