Is VoIP not living up to the hype?
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Is it me or is VoIP getting worse? This is what Tom Keating wants to know. Network monitoring company Brix seems to think that VoIP quality has been over-hyped and is tanking. Brix offers an online speed testing tool to check your connection. From their data it’s supposed to Suck rocks. Hmm, strange, Skype has been fine for me lately. Vonage has been working as I’d expect (downloading a massive file during a conversation is a dumb thing to do). When I ran the tool, granted I had other stuff running in the background, I got a dismal score.
I’m not sure I trust their tool or their objectivity. My local ISP has their own tool on it’s own server just for us. Those results are the ones I tend to benchmark on. Why? Because if I have trouble, that’s where the techs are going to start.
What can the teleworker learn from this? It’s all about bandwidth. The more download speed and upload speed you have the better. And don’t forget all those cool widgets running, RSS readers (have you started trying one yet?), e-mail, 30 tabs open in your browser all take a bite out of your available up and down bandwidth.