[Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Robert Goodyear wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Brian West wrote:
> 
>> Price, Reliability, Quality....
>>
>> Pick 2.
>>
>> NEXT!!!
>>
>> /b
> 
> 
> Yeah, we've already been over that. Waiting for someone to step up to 
> the plate and give me items 2 and 3 at the expense of item 1.
> 
> Hey wait a minute... isn't VoicePulse one of the most expensive? Doesn't 
> that mean I can have Reliability and Quality now according to the 
> formula above?

	I have been complaining about this time and time again.  I'll pay 
double, triple the going rate for quality.  No problem.  Right now I 
have a 6meg down, 600k up rock solid DSL line for $99/month.  That's a 
lot of bandwidth/calls for $99.  NuFone's servers are 12ms (< 1ms 
jitter) away (Chicago), yet I still cannot get a solid, reliable call to 
save my life. (Not a direct hit on NuFone - no flames Jeremy...)

	I have placed IAX calls to another server in a nice datacenter on the 
other side of the country that sound fantastic (where I have access to 
the server, etc).  Pretty sure it's not my end, who knows what their 
problem is... Like we all have all been saying, nobody is willing to 
help, period.

	The point is, to get several simultaneous digital calls and be able to 
set caller id, etc, I would have to pay $400 - $600 /month + $0.04+ LD 
just to get a PRI around here...  That means that I can pay $0.04 on 
ITSP LD and still save around $500 a month.

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Kristian Kielhofner