New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better

Proudrooster writes "Keynote Systems Inc. made 154,000 VOIP calls during the months of May and June. In total they tested six VOIP providers and seven ISPs. Their conclusion was that VOIP isn't quite as robust as the public phone network due to dropped calls, lower audio quality, and latency (audio delay), but it is still pretty good. The worst VOIP provider had an availability of 94.8% (which isn't bad) and overall the reviewers were pleasantly surprised with the VOIP test results. Vonage ranked best for "most reliable" with 99.4% uptime, AT&T CallVantage ranked best for "audio clarity"." Personally I think 94.8% is pretty awful. I don't think 99.4% is very good either. But there is no doubt that audio quality is getting better. I only maintain my land line now for my HD Tivo to dial out from.

I was going to get VOIP, but...

[swelke]

Ya' know, I was going to get VOIP, but then I realized that with my dialup internet connection, it might be kind of redundant.

99.44%

[mph]

I don't think 99.4% is very good either.

Come on! That's near Ivory Soap levels of purity!

Availability

[pyrrhonist]

Personally I think 94.8% is pretty awful. I don't think 99.4% is very good either.

"We can't give you 5 nines availability, would you settle for 9 fives?"

Re:Power outages?

[crimethinker]

Combining the two, what if you had an assailant break into your house during a power outage?

My guns are purely mechanical devices, no electricity required.

Next question?

-paul

Re:Take heed

[MightyMartian]

I thought we had long ago established that, when it comes to the Internet, most users are dumb.

Re:I was going to get VOIP, but...

[Chuan-kai Lin]

So instead of VOIP, you are getting IPOV? Marvelous!

Re:99.9% is....

[karnal]

99%downtime would be

a lot more than you quoted it to be......