What is the difference in broadband and VoIP phone service?
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I want to know about broadband phone service. What is difference between VoIP phone and broadband phone service. Which one of them is more beneficial.
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Answer by Dunbar Pappy ϟϟ
VoIP is ‘carried’ over an Internet connection.
You must have Internet access (of which broadband is one flavor) in order to utilize VoIP.
For instance, Vonage is one VoIP ‘phone’ service, but you must have Internet, provided by an Internet Service Provider (aka “ISP”) first.
Satellite ISP, such as Hughes, would be one Internet service, which can handle a VoIP service.
Some VoIP services are free; others have a fee, which get billed separately from the ISP charges. Did you have any particular configuration in mind?
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Categories: VOIP Questions Tags: Broadband, difference, PHONE, Service, VOIP
Do you need a VOIP provider if you use voice over internet VPN to connect to a pots system?
Question by : Do you need a VOIP provider if you use voice over internet VPN to connect to a pots system?
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Answer by Mike Ward
You will need a provider to ‘break out’ the call from the net to the pots system to get to the final destination.
Hope this helps.
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How will you dial VOIP numbers from your normal phone while using an ATA?
Question by Sachin V: How will you dial VOIP numbers from your normal phone while using an ATA?
I’m planning to buy an ATA(Analogue Telephone Adaptor) for usin with my VOIP provider.But I would like to know how I can dial VOIP numbers like myname@sip.voiparound.com using the analogue phone. Thank you.
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Answer by Mr. VoIP
VoIP adapters like my Linksys SPA2102-NA do not seem to support SIP URI dialing. It supports IP dialing but not URI dialing such as yourname@yourprovider.com.
My SIP provider, CallCentric, does support SIP URI dialing through their network. I tested it with their Speed Dial feauture and successfully dialed my URI number at InPhonex. But, for it to work, I have to use their online Speed Dial feature through my web based Dashboard on CallCentric website.
But, my Linksys SPA2102-NA will not successfully send SIP URI’s through their service. I consulted with CallCentric support on this and they concluded the ATA does not actually support URI dialing.
The Linksys SPA2102-NA is a very good ATA and I like it quite well. However, it doesn’t seem to support URI dialing. As yet, I don’t know which ATA’s will successfully support URI dialing.
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Categories: VOIP Questions Tags: ATA, VOIP
Difference between KVM and Voice over IP?
Question by : Difference between KVM and Voice over IP?
What is the difference between KVM, Voice over IP and logmein. Are they all use the same programming technique or they different ? Are they all use RAS too?
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Answer by Bash Limpbutt’s Oozing Cyst©
Four different things for four different purposes.
KVM stands for Keyboard, Video, Mouse. It refers to switches that allow a single keyboard, monitor and mouse setup to control multiple machines.
VOIP is a means of sending voice over IP networks.
Logmein is a commercial product for sharing documents, presentations, or a computer desktop across a network. It may optionally include voice or video features.
RAS (more correctly RRAS) is the Microsoft solution for remotely accessing network data through through a dial-up network or VPN connection.
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What is VOIP (Voice over IP)?
Question by skyflowers: What is VOIP (Voice over IP)?
Can someone please explain to me what VOIP is? How can I configure it? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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Answer by David C
VOIP is where sound (voice) signals are encoded and sent over an IP network (ethernet).
So, instead of the POTS (plain old telephone system) that charges you to call everyone, you can use the IP infrastructure (Internet) to speak with people in realtime anywhere in the world.
How can you configure it? That depends on what kind of system you have.
Advantages: Crystal clear, high quality audio anywhere in the world at a fraction of the price.
Disadvantages: If your IP network is down, so is your VOIP.
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Categories: VOIP Questions Tags: Voice-over Internet Protocol, VOIP
Q&A: What’s Voice-over IP?
Question by tulic84: What’s Voice-over IP?
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Answer by melancholygiant
Voice over IP (or VOIP) is a protocol that allows telephone conversations to take place over a TCP/IP network (i.e. the Internet). You can also call from PC-to-phone or phone-to-PC using VOIP capable software.
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What do I need to make my phone jacks all operate on voip?
Question by Rofrank: What do I need to make my phone jacks all operate on voip?
I understand there is something I can plug into one phone jack and all the other jacks will become part of the network for VOIP. Anybody know what I need?
The phone adapter supplied with the VOIP service will connect only one phone.
Thanks for any help.
Broadband service is DSL.
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Answer by I use voip now
If you disconnect all the telephone wires from where your regular phone wire from the phone company comes into your house/apt or whatever, and then connect a regular phone (RJ11) phone cord from any one of the jacks in the house to the cable modem, and then use a doubler (a thingy you can buy from any best buy circuit city radio shack etc) you can plug the cord from any of your phones into any of the jacks, and all the jacks will be connected to the modem. DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL YOU HAVE DISCONNECTED THE “INSIDE WIRING” FROM THE WIRE COMING FROM THE PHONE COMPANY. Otherwise, the ring voltage, which is about 90 volts, will FRY your modem, a very bad deal.
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Q&A: How would I explain VoIP to a child?
Question by Dak K: How would I explain VoIP to a child?
My little brother (8) is asking about voice over IP and I don’t really know how to explain it to him simplistically. Any help would be great. Thanks!
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Answer by zurna3
Just tell him that it sends the persons voice through the computer and through the internet instead of through the phone and phone line. I can’t think of a simpler way. If he asks how it gets to a phone just explain there’s a box that lets the call go through to other phone lines.
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Is it possible to wire a VoIP adapter to all the landlines in the house?
Question by I Like Men: Is it possible to wire a VoIP adapter to all the landlines in the house?
If I disconnect the wires that lead into the house from the POTS terminal outside, they will have no input. Then can I connect the output jack on the back of my VoIP router to any landline jack in my house to have VoIP to every landline jack?
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Answer by Mr. VoIP
Yes, you can do that if your Internet is provided over cable TV line.
Obviously, you could not do that if you have DSL Internet because the DSL Internet comes in on the external telephone line.
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Q&A: Voice Over IP (VoIP) and Video over IP (VoIP)?
Question by 235: Voice Over IP (VoIP) and Video over IP (VoIP)?
Technology has changed, new doors have opened, and it’s time to bring back ideas that where too early for their time. Not too long ago, there where several companies involved in Video Phone, it did no work, why? Because the communication lines where too slow (small bandwidth). Now, we have Cable, and DSL with very high speed available to most residents. VoIP has also improved significantly over those bandwidth, so why not go to the next step and add the video? There are already plenty of VoIP phones, a simple modification and adding a small screen (the same ones used for digital cameras) and a small camera (similar to the ones used in PC cameras) and synchronizing the image with the voice and sending it with the same packet of voice. Why can’t we go there? I would jump into that venture.
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Answer by Byron M
There are already Video over IP services. Many VoIP carriers offer it as H.323 video protocols. I believe most of the issue is license codec and bandwidth but with open source systems such as Asterisk/TrixBox you can do Video over IP very well.
The protocol is device independent so if your input supports h.323 it should scale pretty well with whatever software/pbx solution you implement.
I have done very high bandwidth internal conference h.323 internally and compressed ISDN channels for satellite offices and it works great. There are software “reflectors” that can do it independently but as you stated a standardized PBX solution for internal business and branch office use is probably the best route to go.
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