[PLUG] VoIP on DSL?

[Paul Johnson]

Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net> writes:

> 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.

Show me a DSL line with less than a quarter second ping to the telco.

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo at ursine.ca>
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