Comments on: Voice Over IP

By: green

green — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:19:40 +0000

Thanks for that article. I do know about voice over Ip but really didn’t know how the technology worked. That was an easy to understand explanation.
Voice over ip has made international calls really affordable. International calls are expensive in my country so I always use skype to make international calls at a very low rate

By: Dartz

Dartz — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:02:59 +0000

I have my own means, but out of all of them, if I absolutely need to be heard, I use Windows Live to make a vocal call. A lot better than a phone, you can’t show off nice pictures over a phone at any acceptable quality.

By: ghuraba_t

ghuraba_t — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:29:49 +0000

VoIP is a great tool for anyone. The only problem is the person at the other end may find it annoying as the quality is not always the greatest. So use it sparingly, and use it with people you know will understand why you are using it and don’t have a problem with it.

By: bluet

bluet — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:20:58 +0000

For some countries, Skype is easy to use and of course the quality is very reliable. Unfortunately it is still not yet available worldwide, such as in south east Asia. VoIP business will no doubt continue to grow and perhaps sometime in the future, we will be able to offer this service for our website visitors and forum members.

By: vttop

vttop — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:19:44 +0000

I have been using Skype for almost all my international calls for a few years now. What I like most about it is the clarity of the voice and the absence of echo when making long distance calls. When I am use a landlines to call internationally, I often hear an echo that makes it difficult to understand how many people you are talking to simultaneously, and of course it costs me almost nothing to make these calls with Skype as compared to using a landline.

By: descorpio

descorpio — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:44:26 +0000

This is such a beautiful article and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I was blindly making phone calls from my messenger service and pc calls. But now at least I understand some of the concepts. Thanks for publishing this. I am becoming tech savvy at least to some extent now.

By: cirereyes

cirereyes — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:18:57 +0000

Packets is already an old technology that has been in use long before the internet was introduced. It was used to transmit data using HF and VHF radio frequencies. I’ve tried to use this packets and it is really slow. I think they need to come up with a new technology to enhance VOIP services.

By: SunDrop

SunDrop — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:15:02 +0000

I have several friends and family members who now use VoIP at home instead of a regular phone line.

I absolutely hate having to call any of them or having them call me. The quality is so bad. I can never understand what they are saying half the time and when I can, I usually end up with a dropped call.

I assume it will get better. Cell phones did.

By: JenniP

JenniP — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:53:39 +0000

While VOIP is great you really need to have QOS (Quality of Service), we use VOIP at work for most of our phones and most of the time because our broadband lacks QOS our calls keep dropping out as either our upstream or downstream SDSL connection is full.

By: Postman

Postman — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:37:26 +0000

VOIP is the one that is being used on most Call Centers from our country. I believe that it is much cheaper then doing a normal call outside of the country.

The term VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) refers to the actual transmission of the voice. There are two kinds of VoIP services, the VoIP-to-PSTN and VoIP-toVoIP calls.