[Asterisk-Users] VOIP Deployment Concerns

[Walt Reed]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:38:37AM -0500, William Suffill said:
> I will be moving in a few months and I'm concerned as to what kind of
> bandwidth I would need to work effectively. The reason I posed the
> question here is simple most of my work is remote SSH to various
> BSD/Linux machines but a majority of my business calls from the office
> and clients will be routed through Asterisk. Currently I use a SIP phone
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> Where I'll be moving will more than likely be installing broadband from
> Adelphia Cable 256up 3mbit down unless I have a valid reason to require
> the 512up/4mbit down prem. package at approximately 80 a month. I don't
> have any personal experience with them since I do live in NJ and will be
> relocating to FL. Any advise would greatly appreciated.
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Good luck with Adelphia. My experience is that the service is VERY
flakey. Sure, you can occasionally get the 3Mb down, rarely get the
256Kb up, but the norm seems to have LOTS of service outages that last
5 seconds to a minute. I also found that as soon as school let out,
bandwidth and latency SUCKED. It also frequently went offline for hours
at a time (3 days in one case.) My normal upload was 5Kb, and download
was 100Kb. IMHO, cable is not a good medium for VOIP (at least
adelphia's service... I've heard other cable companies are better.)

When called about it, Adelphia claims that their service is designed for
web browsing and not interactive applications. WTF???

It would be interesting to hear others experiences.