[PLUG] VoIP on DSL?

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Sun Apr 11 02:42:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> >   Is anyone here using VoIP on a DSL connection? I'm wondering if it's
> > something I should consider for both the business and residential
> > phone lines.
>
> The price of DSL for the kind of bandwidth you'll need for more than a
> single line will far outweigh the price benefit of consumer-grade VoIP.

Why would VoIP require more bandwidth than a DS0 (64kbps)?  Hell, that's
not even hardly compressed.  Surely, latency is all that matters.

J.
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