[asterisk-users] VoIP over satellite internet

[Don E. Wisdom]

I work on the salmon river in Idaho as a computer/radio tech.
All of the satellite isp's do not have the upstream capability.
Skype barely works. (you have to try upwards of 20 times for it to work)
If I have to make phone calls when I am there I always use the SSB
Radiophone or satellite phone because it is far far far more reliable and
doesn't irritate the living hell out of the person your calling.
I have tried 2-3 different VoIP providers & all have the exact same result.
The other side only hears a few pieces of word or nothing at all and hangs
up.
I have tried this on Starband (360 & 480 modems) & wild blue
Starband also has outages during the day where you cant see their satellite.
Most of the satellite ISP's also have rolling bandwith caps.  (Starbands is
1gig down & 300megs up in a 7 day period for the plans I deal with)
Overall I think its a bad idea.  It most likely will not work.

--Don



On 5/8/09 10:56 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> If people don't mind taking turns talking, it will "work".  It's just going
> to be like talking on a CB.  Reminds me of talking to my grandparents in the
> Europe as a child in the early 80's.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric Fort
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:30 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] VoIP over satellite internet
> 
> Could those on the list who have used or tried to use VoIP over a
> satellite internet connection comment on how well it works or if it
> even works at all in a reliable way.  What is the effect of latency on
> the VoIP path and how much is generally tolerable?  routing via
> satellite adds about a quarter second of latency to the path.  Is that
> too much?
> 
> Eric
> 
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