[asterisk-users] Rate or rank ITSP

Bruce Reeves asterisk at nortex-networks.com
Tue Jul 11 12:47:12 MST 2006


I think if someone put together a site like dslreports that allowed people
to rate their experince with a ITSP and record the latency, carrier/network
etc . . . then it would be helpful in shopping for an ITSP.


On 7/11/06, trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
>
> There is also the issue of origin of the caller.  Not just
> geographically, but which network provider they use, and to some degree
> when.  Most ISPs see higher traffic volumes when school gets out for the
> day (abnout 3pm) continuing for a few hours, then gradually declining
> until its later (11pm or so).  As a result, a call made at 10am may have
> totally different characteristics from one made at 6pm (when both school
> kids and working adults tend to get home).
>
> As such the problem may not be the VoIP provider but with the network of
> the person sending the call, or a tertiary provider in between the two.
> Therefore I suggest that if such a list is done, people will include who
> their provider is, and whether they have had problems in the mornings,
> evenings, dead of night, etc.  That way the list can be as fair as
> possible to all providers.
>
> And if you can search for providers from your geographic location off
> your provider, you can filter out the ones that are known to be bad from
> your location and network.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 21:03 -0400, mike wrote:
> > i'll be very interested in that
> > it would also be useful that every qos rate comply with some
> [snip]
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 09:40 -0400, Barry Fawthrop wrote:
> > > Hi There
> > > I know of wiki there is a list of VOIP providers, but is there a list
> or
> > > can we create / suggest one
> > > that will list VoIP providers, their location and quality of service ?
>
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Bruce
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