[COLUG] Business net access in Dublin

[Dave]

I have Vonage at home using Time Warner's residential service (6-7  
Mbps down, 400-500Kbps up). I was never able to reliably fax over it  
(gave up trying), but calls are reliable most of the time. There are  
occasional glitches, but even in the evenings, the phone almost always  
works fine. Are they making calls overseas or within the U.S.? The few  
times we've made international calls, they were occasionally a bit  
choppy while other times it was fine.

Dave

On May 6, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Vallance, Noel wrote:

> Dave,
> I don't have any experience with VOIP over DSL but latency and class  
> of
> service are your friends.
> If you can set the phone system to only use a specific DSL lines you  
> can
> pay for the premium services only on that line.
> You could also try pricing a frac T1 and a DSL line.  Prioritizing  
> your
> voip over the T1 and falling back to the DSL when the circuit gets  
> full.
> Time Warner Communications has been expanding their fiber and pushing
> their Ethernet solutions for the last several years.  If they already
> have fiber in the building or if the client has a long term lease on  
> the
> building to recoup install costs it might be worth while.  You'll  
> still
> want to setup X amount of prioritized bandwidth in the service  
> contract
> for voip or else you run the risk of poor or dropped calls.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colug432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug432-bounces at colug.net]  
> On
> Behalf Of Dave Maxwell
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:48 PM
> To: colug432 at colug.net
> Subject: [COLUG] Business net access in Dublin
>
> I've got a client who's expanding his business in Dublin.  The  
> office is
> in
> Tuller Park Road pretty close to the Target.
>
> They've hit the wall with Business Class RoadRunner.   As soon as the
> kids get
> home and fire up their P2P clients and hit their MySpace pages, they
> become
> unable to reliably recieve faxes or make calls over their IP phones.
>
> The problem is bad enough that I set up a Hylafax server for them at
> another
> site (fun fun in itself!).
>
> They are currently mulling two options.   AT&T will sell them either
> three
> 768K DSL lines or 1 T1 and a set of fixed IPs.  Without a doubt, the  
> DSL
>
> lines will have waaaayyy more bandwidth but they absolutely need
> reliable IP
> telephony.  And it is a case of install 1 or the other.
>
> Anybody familiar with the business class DSL service there?  Can you  
> run
> IP
> telephony over it OK? Are there other options?
>
> I really didn't have an answer for him but told him that apart from  
> the
> obscene amount of money for the T1 that the DSL would be faster  
> overall
> but
> that he may need the T1 to get closer to some sort of guarenteed  
> latency
> for
> his fax/phones.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
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