[asterisk-biz] VoIP Provider

[Kevin Steil]

True...I am the US. Our Datacenter is Texas...

-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Barende [mailto:asterisk at barendse.to] 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:07 PM
To: Asterisk Biz List
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] VoIP Provider

Well, it all depends on where you are located, a provider in Australia 
isn't going to do you much good if you are located in Europe, the
latency 
will kill the quality.

I am using magrathea and from time to time they have the exact same 
problem, it usually lasts from anything between an afternoon and 2 days.

The problem is not in the connection from my server between magrathea
and 
I have this issue with multiple servers in entirely different 
locations/connections.  The strange thing is that for me it only happens

on European destinations, calls to Japan or India are crystal clear.
Call 
quality to Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France sucks most of the 
time mostly because of echo.

I also tried voxmundi but the sound quality was a bit too dull to my 
taste even though I was using ulaw/alaw.

When you look at the WIKI B2B page most you will find are providers
really 
only suitable for home use, under The Netherlands for example a company 
like Talkin2Ya is listed. More expensive than even our Royal Dutch
Telecom 
and not a word about simultaneous connections....... And such companies 
are listed under wholesale, hah!

I would also be interested in a good quality, business grade carrier, 
pereferably one with low latency from Europe but far enough away that
they 
do not have to fulfill the obligation of the new european telecomm law 
that forces carries to keep a copy of all conversations.....



On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Kevin Steil wrote:

> Does anyone have a reliable provider for business class service?  My
> current provider is IPCOMMS and they seem to be having two
> issues...delay (3 to 4 seconds) when speaking and sometime I have 3 to
5
> second dead spots in calls...no audio either way...HELP
>
>
>
> Kevin J. Steil
>
> Steil Technologies
>
>