[asterisk-users] VoIP over satellite internet

[Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy]

2009/5/9 Don E. Wisdom <donw at engineeringinc.com>

> 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
>

Hello, i did once install in south Africa, and the only problem i had is the
delay, however the client has the dedicated 2 mbit uplink. But when i talked
over it the delay was really noticable.

>
>
>
> 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-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [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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