<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Scott Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott-BEuBXOPWo2E@public.gmane.orgg">scott-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 08/02/2011 07:39 PM, William Park wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
Has anyone tried VoIP home phone from <a href="http://teksavvy.com" target="_blank">teksavvy.com</a> (called "TekTalk"),<br>
<<a href="http://teksavvy.com/en/res-homephone.asp#tektalk" target="_blank">http://teksavvy.com/en/res-<u></u>homephone.asp#tektalk</a>><br>
or from any other ISP? I'm wondering, for $9.95/month, what's the<br>
catch?<br>
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The biggest gotcha is going to be the fact that if your DSL goes down, so does your VoIP.<br>
There are a lot of problems that can disrupt DSL, but not POTS (plain old telephone service).<br>
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The quality of your DSL service also matters, phone signals can reach a LOT farther and still be usable on a dodgy line then DSL.<br>
DSL can also be much higher latency. ~10ms if you have a good quality line (for a Fast Channel profile) or ~40ms for poor quality (using an Interleave Profile to compensate).<br>
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You best also make sure your ISP has an alternate contact number for when the send a Bell dispatch to fix the line (because it's almost all Bell infrastructure, no matter which ISP your with for DSL). If Bell can't get a hold of you they used to just drop the matter, but recent policy changes means they hand it off to the ISPs and say "You schedule your subscriber".<br>
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It can work and be much cheaper if you already have DSL, but just be aware that a lot more can go wrong with DSL then just POTS.<br></blockquote><div><br>You are right POTS in theory should have much less problems but at least in Israel I have seen many times that DSL did work and phone did not (standard phone).<br>
As for VoIP phones, some company in Israel markets I think something similar but it connects between the line and the DSL modem.<br>I don't have any personal experience with it but I heard people saying in caused problems with their Internet connection.<br>
<br>-- <br>Ori Idan<br><br></div></div><br></div>