Leonardo pans Packet8, and seems to say in one breathe how unhappy he is and then to the issue of the current state of VoIP and handoff to other carriers.
It deals with Codecs and the concept of transcoding, the taking of one carriers voice packets and delivering them to the other end in the right codec.
I agree with his view of softphones, but also wonder how things like who his broadband provider is, what kind of router he is using and how the calls are getting to the end point.
I also wonder if the problem is on all calls, calls he initiates or calls he receives or if he is happy and made a typo?
Dear Andy,
No typo there. I am not completely unhappy with P8. I have to say that their reliabiltity is excellent. But they could be more flexible, and their web interface could use some improvements as well. I am currently with Charter’s internet service, and it is indeed a decent service as well. I am using a simple Netgear Wi-Fi router MR814, which seems to work very well.
regards,
Leo !
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