Ken Rutkowski, who I co-host the World Technology Round Up on KenRadio is in Amsterdam for a content on the net conference.
He called me using Skype Out. The call quality was rather good. Then we went Skype to Skype. The quality was better and I was on a mic, not the Clarisys handset I prefer to use.
Earlier in the day, SkiBare, Keith of VoIPNuke.org was on the phone, um I mean VOIP lines with me.
We ran through a bunch of tests on the usual suspects. Vonage via Softphone, VoicePulse (both box and WiFi), Skype and CallVantage.
On the softphone side the Vonage line sounded clearer than SkypeOut, Voice Pulse was almost equal in call quality but it dropped the calls. CallVantage as Keith said, “sounded just like PSTN.” While there wasn’t any science behind the trial, it did prove what I already suspected and have been saying, that CallVantage is the best sounding VoIP and when I’m doing business that’s what I need.
VoIP Watch Runs The Players
Andy at VOIP Watch runs through a call test using quite a few players through soft and hard phone… Callvantage gets the confirmed flag with the best call clarity, followed by Vonage Voice Pulse and SkypeOut. I thought it was pretty interesting fro…