Does anybody know the benefits of VoIP technology?
Question by Geek: Does anybody know the benefits of VoIP technology?
VoIP phones are being preferred over land line phones. Just want to know whether these VoIP phones help in saving money on making cheap international calls?
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Answer by Dovi
The benefits of Voip Phones is that you can use them as home phones and you can carry the same number on your smartphone. This means if you travel overseas you can get all your home messages. It also means you pay a lot less for your talk time and if you have relatives overseas you can call them for the cost of the call in there local area
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Q&A: How can i use Voip without a computer ?
Question by mart g: How can i use Voip without a computer ?
I have a broadband connection and i want to use voip to make phone calls, but i dont want to have my computer running all the time(noisy) any ideas
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Answer by half_life1052
Most commercial providers “Vonage,Packet8,etc, use what is called an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter). You just plug a regular telephone into the ATA and then plug the ATA into a router. Very simple to setup. You could use a provider that doesn’t supply the ATA and buy your own. They are about $ 50 (US). I have a very complex setup using a piece of software called asterisk. 6 extensions and 2 VOIP lines + land line.
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Do you have to have a data plan to use the internet on your cellphone?
Question by Zayde: Do you have to have a data plan to use the internet on your cellphone?
I have a voice plan from wind and no data plan, can I connect my cellphone to my wireless signal at home to download and check my email stuff without getting charged? Or in any other cases anywhere where theres wifi ex the library?
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Answer by EscalatorKid
Yes, you need a data plan to surf the internet on your phone… if you don’t want to pay ridiculous per-MB rate charges.
You might be able to connect to wi-fi, but more than likely, you’ll end up getting charged. At least depending on the phone you have.
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Q&A: What is the application of VoIP and how can one use this device with the dial up internet access ?
Question by tesfay.yony: What is the application of VoIP and how can one use this device with the dial up internet access ?
Some one to use the VOIP, what requirements are needed
-hardware requirement
-software requirement
-ISP requirement
type of LAN and the internet type
Type of special skill
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Answer by sHaDoW
VOIP (voice-over internet protocol) is a standard and not provided by any one company. There are a couple different major companies that provide VOIP service. They are Vonage, Skype, T-mobile, and many others. I personally use Vonage and absolutely love it. I was kind of concerned due to all the negative comments by people. The only issue was I couldn’t port my local landline number to Vonage. With some VOIP providers (Vonage does this) they provide you with hardware that allows you to plug in your existing phone and use that instead of using a computer. It is possible to plug this device into an existing telephone jack and “backfeed” into your phone system allowing all of the phones in your house to share the VOIP service (though make sure you physically disconnect from the phone company network interface before doing this, else bad things could result). With other VOIP providers you need to install their software on your computer and use a headset or a mic and external speakers.
As far as system requirements go, if you have a hardware VOIP device then there aren’t any since it operates independent of your PC. For software type check with the individual providers since requirements will vary.
I would recommend an absolute bare minimum internet speed of 384kbps download/128kbps upload. Although it might work with less speed, chances are if your using the internet and on the phone, you’ll experience choppy sound. Remember VOIP is real-time and requires an uninterrupted connection while in use. Basically you need some sort of broadband connection (cable, DSL, etc.). Dial-up or ISDN is out of the question. You can test your internet connection at:http://www.voip.com/speedtest.aspx .
The only other consideration is it won’t work if your broadband modem has one ethernet port and it’s connected directly to your computer. In that case you’ll need a router to allow the internet connection to be shared between your PC and VOIP device. There are some VOIP devices that have a router built-in.
As far as skill required, it not really that difficult. The hardware type device is a bit more difficult to setup; however, there are plenty of online resources and most companies will provide you with a setup kit that contains practically everything you’ll need, complete with instructions.
I hope this clears up any confusion!
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VOIP how good is it? How much internet speed does it require?
Question by zex: VOIP how good is it? How much internet speed does it require?
I would like to install a VOIP phone, but dont know what internet speed it requires. Any related advices will be very appreciated.
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Answer by Jim
It depends on who is providing the service. It is possible that you would need only a 8-10kbps connection, however this would not be very good quality. Generally, you will want at least a 75-100k connection to use VOIP. Be sure that your UPLOAD speed is at least this as well, otherwise you may hear the other person fine, but your voice will sound broken to them.
If you get a service which requires the 75-100k connection, you will probably not notice a difference in terms of call quality. But this is highly dependent on how good your internet connection is. Really, the only way to know is to try it out.
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Q&A: Is there any way of using VoIP without computer – eg through a router’s ethernet port?
Question by dezza: Is there any way of using VoIP without computer – eg through a router’s ethernet port?
I’d like to use a VoIP service, but would prefer not to have to leave the computer on all day.
Is there any way I can avoid using a PC to make and receive calls – are there any adaptors that can be plugged straight into an ethernet router?
Thanks in advance.
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Answer by 16k-zx81
We have voip and the phone (a standard phone, not a voip phone) plugs straight into the router. It works regardless of whether the computer is on or off.
You can also use a VOIP adapter [its a small box like a modem], which plugs into your modem (phone plugs into the adapter)
All you need for VOIP is a VOIP router OR a VOIP adapter to plug into your modem, and a broadband connection. The computer is not necessary.
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Are the Internet connections and VOIP on cruise ships reliable ?
Question by Sin nombre: Are the Internet connections and VOIP on cruise ships reliable ?
I have a small business that I need to send and receive phone calls a couple hours a day. Can I use a VOIP connection? Or is a cell phone a better option ? What expenses are involved?
Our cruise sails for 7 days from Puerto Rico to the Southern Caribbean Islands. I would need to make and receive around 5 calls a day for 3-4 of the days .
Thank you for your help .
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Answer by Anja H
I found there is a difference between cruise lines, how fast an internet connection is. mostly they are reliable. For VOIP calls, expect some interruption or a not so great signal, but it works. I don’t use the ship’s computers, but my laptop, since most of the ships have wireless access by now. With this, you control better when it starts charging, since you can get all ready before you connect.
Regarding mobile phones, be careful, because by now many of the cruise ships will route through their system, which will cost you additional pennies (more dollars) when you call from the ship. Even if you are docked in one of the islands and you are thinking you are calling from Puerto Rico to your destination – you could be on the ship’s network which will cost you much more.
To avoid that you would need to know the network of the place you are at and manually change that on your phone – or walk off the ship to make your call.
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Can the voip modem be plugged into the router instead of the other way around?
Question by waha: Can the voip modem be plugged into the router instead of the other way around?
I’m trying to port forward to minecraft and I have linksys2102 voip modemplugged into the satellite and a dlink router plugged into that. I have the dlink configured to port forward but can’t figure out how to unlock the modem.
I was wondering if I could plug the dlink router into the wall and then connect the modem to it and still have the phone work.
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Answer by PCeeze
Your setup should be
satellite – dlink router – linksys 2102
|— other computers
You need to set up the dlink for QoS.
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Q&A: How many phones can be used on a VOIP Line?
Question by : How many phones can be used on a VOIP Line?
If someone has a business or office, how many VOIP lines on a single internet connection can they have? Considering that they don’t have their own PBX system?
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Answer by VoIPtalk
Technically speaking, VoIP can accomodate as many lines (channels) and numbers (or DID’s) as you want.
You can have many different phone numbers (DID’s) that ring to one line.
And/Or, you can have one phone number that will ring to many lines. But, this scenario likely requires that you have an IP-PBX in the office.
With VoIP, simultaneous call are handled over separate “channels”. Some VoIP carriers will allow you as many channels as you want for as many simultaneous calls you need.
If you don’t have or want to install your own IP-PBX to handle many simultaneous calls, you can subscribe to a VoIP service that provides “Hosed Virtual PBX” service. In this case, the VoIP provider takes care of all the IP-PBX functions and forwards all the calls to your office “IP-Phones”.
You can have as many IP-Phones in your office as you like and limited only by the number of “Extension” or Lines that the Hosted Virtual PBX service provider can provide to your office via your Internet connection.
As far as how many simultaneous calls (or channels) your office can receive will depend primarily on your Internet bandwidth speed. Basically, high quality voice calls will be using G.711u or G.722 Codec for voice compression over Internet. On average, this means each channel of a call will consume between 90 – 110 Kbps bandwidth. So if your office needed to have a maximum of 5 lines or channels taking calls at the same time, then your Internet “upload” bandwidth will need to accomadate at least 5 x 110 Kbps = 550 Kbps. By the same token, 10 lines or channels will need at least 1.1 Mbps “Upload” speed.
I emphasize Upload speed because this is usually much less than the advertised Download speeds ISP’s advertise. For example, if your ISP is providing you with 10 Mbps download speed, they may only be giving your 1.0 Mbps Upload speed (maximum).
But don’t forget when you calculate your minimum Internet speed requirements, you have to include what your other computers in the office are using for web browsing, file transfers, email, etc, etc.
So, if all your VoIP phones need 1Mbps upload speed you should at least double or triple that number to account for all the other computers in the office using the Internet connections too.
This usually requires you to have Routers on your office network that implement QOS that give top priority to VoIP calls over all other local network traffic in your office.
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Voice over IP VPN Connections?
Question by SealedWithAKiss: Voice over IP VPN Connections?
We’re currently running a VoIP telecommunications system using Avaya products. We are an organisation with multiple remote sites, which all need to be connected via VPN tunnels to ensure that they are able to communicate with one another for both voice and data. Currently we are using a system whereby each remote site is connected to every other remote site by a single VPN connection. This seems to be extremely inefficient, since we have literally between 10-15 VPN connections to every remote site. We’d like to change this by bringing all of our VoIP communications into a single location, namely our head office where the Avaya call server is located.
This would work by creating a single VPN connection between every location to our head office, eliminating the administrative nightmare that we’ve been experiencing. All of the remote networks are on varying subnets, with our head office actually being supernetted with a 255.255.252.0 subnet mask. The telephones at our head office are on a separate VLAN. It might also be worth mentioning that we are using a WatchGuard firewall to route traffic and manage the external VPN connections. What’s the best way to go about going from the dysfunctional system we have in place now, to adopting a ‘one to many’ topology that’s much more efficient?
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Answer by Lionel1020
To change your dysfunctional system you will have to do a trace and correct on each individual site starting with head office. This can be very time consuming and costly. It might be easier to delete and reinstall the lot. Do the head office then make an installation script of the 1st site config.. Then you just run the script at each site.
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