Voip Comparison

Help! packet 8 voip/ time Warner Internet/ linksys router... At wits end? I have been on the phone with tech support since thursday with ither time warner, linksys or packet 8 support. I am so frustrated and at my wits end. This issue is that my voip phone ( packet 8) has static . So far I have had the router ( wrt546 V8 wireless router 1X1) programed ,, quality turned up, port forwarding . Still issues. I called time warner and got the highest speed availble, since doing that I lose my internet a couple times a day. .... the phone when it is working is a little better sice doing that. The phone has been reprogramed a million times. The phone is no where near the power source and the packet 8 modum is not near the phone. The phone people tell me that it is loseing packets time warner says nope signal is strong and that is nonsence. I made sure that my internet was not on a splitter and that the cord that goes from the wall to the modum is less then 6 feet. I have tried everything and everyone gives me a diffrent answer. Please help!

Does anyone have voip phone service from packet 8? If so how are their service?

can I use my VOIP phone number outside of the US? I have Packet 8 VOIP. I am moving to Chile and was hoping to keep my same area code/phone # so my relatives & friends can call me on a local, U.S. number. From what I understand, it doesn't matter where in the world you are with VOIP, as long as you have a broadband connection and the VOIP device...is that correct?

How do I update or delete a listing in the phone book? I have an entry that has a correct address and a wrong phone number and a second entry with the correct phone number with wrong address. Who exactly is responsible for phone book listings, is it the phone book producer or do they get their data from a centralized database. I migrated my phone to a VOIP provider and they claim no responsibility for the entry. I am in the former bell south territory, recently acquired by AT&T but use packet 8 for VOIP service.

port forwarding/Port triggering Setup-for a WGR-614v6 Netgear wireless router? How Do I Setup My Port Fowarding Port Trigering for my WGR-614v6 Wireless Router For use with 2 Playstation 2s, A PSP, 2 Pentium 2 PCs Running Windows XP SP2, a Packet 8 VOIP Phone Adaptor, Running Thease Services on my LAN Napster, Windows Live Messager, Yahoo Messager, Comcast Rapisty player, Windows Media Player 11 w/ Napster Plugin, all Live services, Playstation 2 online Games,Packek 8 VOIP, and Sony PSP Online Games

Is there any other VOIP service that allows you to use your existing phones in your house like Charter does? I am currently on Charter Digital Telephone (VOIP) and they issued me a Arris Touchstone Modem which allows me to use all of my existing telephone wiring and phones. Problem is though Charters' telephone service stopped working. I am in the 30 day trail period and was thinking of canceling and just opting to use either Vonage, Packet 8, ATT Callvantage, Verizon's VOIP service, or some other VOIP service but I was wondering which one allows you to use your existing house phones without doing any modding to the house phone wiring just simply plugging a telephone wire into any telephone jack like Charters touchstone modem allows you to. Anyone know of a VOIP service that allows you to use your exisiting house telephones?

Poor VOIP quality due to jitter? I am trying to determine why I have, at times, such poor quality VOIP. I ran a test at http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/index.html and determined that my problem is a high rate of jitter. Here is the data: Jitter: you --> server: 8.0 ms Jitter: server --> you: 3.6 ms Here is the rest of the data: Speed test statistics --------------------- Download speed: 4905832 bps Upload speed: 368960 bps Quality of service: 97 % Download test type: socket Upload test type: socket Maximum download pause: 118 ms Average download pause: 2 ms Minimum round trip time to server: 30 ms Average round trip time to server: 65 ms VoIP test statistics -------------------- Jitter: you --> server: 8.0 ms Jitter: server --> you: 3.6 ms Packet loss: you --> server: 0.0 % Packet loss: server --> you: 0.0 % Packet discards: 0.0 % Packets out of order: 0.0 % Number of supported VoIP lines: 6 Estimated MOS score: 3.9 What can I do to help correct the jitter? Config: Cable Modem then VOIP Modem then Router

What do I need to set up an Asterisk service? I've got a rather in-depth request for anyone who has jumped through all the hoops. What do we need to make and receive calls to/from VoIP & PSTN phones worldwide, and what would the cost be? We intend to use our existing Cisco 7940 / 7960 IP phones. What specs should the server have for good call quality? we will have 5 offices with 8 users (perhaps 4 concurrent), and 1 with 20 users (perhaps 10 concurrent). With the server located in one site and all our IP phones/stations located throughout the United States, what kind of internet will be needed at both the server and IP phone ends? (asymmetric/symemetric? need packet prioritization via the switch to ensure voice call quality? will cable internet be ok?) Do we need to pay a service to convert our IP calls to/from the regular PSTN network? what about long-distance PSTN? What support, installation, troubleshooting, fixing solutions does Digium offer and how much does it run? We need to ensure that we won't lose service.

Anyone up for a quiz? 1. ___ is a common-channel signaling standard developed in the late 1970’s. 2. ___ signaling can be represented by a sinusoidal waveform. 3. To encode a voice signal into a digital form, all sampling techniques utilize the ____ theorem. 4. The most common signaling method for user-to-network analog communications is ____. 5-6. ISDN offers two access methods: ____ and ____ (2 points) 7. In ISDN, the ___ channel carries the user information or data. 8. In ISDN, the ___ channel carries signaling information. 9. In ISDN, the ___ reference point specifies information for the local loop. 10. In ISDN, the ___ reference point provides a connection point for non-ISDN devices. 11. The sum of 23B and 1D in PRI provides ___Mbps and is commonly referred to as a T1. 12. The ___ routes all the signaling messages in the SS7 network. 13. ___ are telephone switches that are provisioned with SS7 capabilities. 14. Layer 7 of the OSI model. ___ 15. Layer 6 of the OSI model. ___ 16. Layer 5 of the OSI model. ___ 17. Layer 4 of the OSI model. ___ 18. Layer 3 of the OSI model. ___ 19. Layer 2 of the OSI model. ___ 20. Layer 1 of the OSI model. ___ 21-23. An IP packet can be addressed in three ways, they are: ____ , ____ and ____ 24. ___ is a connection-less layer 4 protocol. 25. ___ is a connection-oriented layer 4 protocol. 26. ___ is a variation of packet interarrival time and it doesn’t occur in circuit-switched networks. 27. ___ is the standard protocol for transmitting delay-sensitive traffic on packet-switched networks. Relating to voice security (28-30): 28. ___ means the recipient should receive the packets that were sent with no alteration in the contents. 29. ___ means that a third party should not be able to read the data that is intended for the recipient. 30. ___ is another term for validating that the sender and recipient are legitimate. 31. ___ monitor and analyze network traffic to detect intrusion. 32-33. Two examples of link-state routing protocols are: ____ and ___ 34-35. Two examples of distance-vector routing protocols are: ___ and ___ 36. The physical cabling that runs into your home is commonly called the ___ ____. 37. The ___ ___ is where you would find racks of telephone switches that homes/businesses connect to. 38. PSTN requires a ____ plan to differentiate the phone number’s country code, central office code, and station#. ITU-T and NANP are the current plans. 39. Layer 4 of the TCP/IP model. ___ 40. Layer 3 of the TCP/IP model. ___ 41. Layer 2 of the TCP/IP model. ___ 42. Layer 1 of the TCP/IP model. ___ 43-44. The two layers of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) are: _____ and ____ 45-50. What are the six types of links that can be found in the SS7 network? 51-53. What are the three basic functions that must occur in a basic voice transaction? (setup, transmission, teardown) yeah, I left it there on purpose… 54-60. Explain Weighted Fair Queuing and how it applies to VoIP traffic. Include the mechanisms that are used in calculating the queue.