Bandwidth Requirement For VoIP Phones
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How Much Bandwidth is Required for VoIP Phones?
Bandwidth Drives VoIP
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The quality
of your VoIP phone calls depends upon the speed of your internet connection.
Naturally the speedier the internet connection, the better the quality of
your calls. However, the costs go up as you go for higher speeds. On the
contrary lower speeds would save you money but the quality of VoIP calls
would suffer.
To strike a balance between costs and the service quality, you need to go
for VoIP bandwidth which is enough - not too much nor too little. But how
much is enough?
Read the following article for answers to the question:
A
long-standing question for
potential VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) consumers is “How much
bandwidth does a VoIP phone require to make quality telephone calls?”
First
of all, Bandwidth is
defined as the ability to transfer data (such as a VoIP telephone call)
from one point to another in a fixed amount of time. The higher the
bandwidth speed you have, the more data you can send over your
Broadband Internet connection.
There
are two types of
bandwidth at your location: upload bandwidth and download bandwidth.
The Upload Bandwidth is the amount of data you can send to the Internet
and download bandwidth is the amount of data you can receive from the
Internet. The more Internet bandwidth you have from your ISP (Internet
Service Provider) the better.
In
most cases, the normal
VoIP telephone call will use up 90 Kbps (kilobits per second). If you
have a Broadband Internet service provider that doesn’t offer much
bandwidth then most VoIP providers give you the option to lower the
VoIP voice quality by lowering the bandwidth used for VoIP calls to 60
Kbps or, to really conserve your bandwidth, 30 Kbps. Most people can't
tell the difference between the three settings. We suggest you use the
high sound quality setting (90 Kpbs in most cases), if bandwidth is not
an issue. High VoIP voice quality is generally the default setting but
if you are running into a situation where your bandwidth is limited
then you can adjust your VoIP bandwidth to one of the lower settings.
Some consumers with 128 Kbps upload connections can receive less VoIP
service quality due to a poor quality ISP (Internet Service Provider).
By selecting a lower quality VoIP bandwidth setting, this problem can
be avoided.
If
you plan on using a VoIP
service provider, should you get a DSL or a Cable Internet access
provider? In general, DSL upload bandwidth starts at 128k where as
Cable Internet upload bandwidth starts at around 600k. Cable Internet
is a little bit more expensive, but it is also about 4-5 times faster
than residential DSL and a bit friendlier to a VoIP telephone call.
Having said that, both DSL and cable modem high-speed services provide
sufficient broadband Internet access bandwidth to support any of the
top VoIP service providers. If you are experiencing low Broadband
Internet Service provider bandwidth, we suggest you try Packet8 VoIP.
Packet8 VoIP boasts an advanced compression technology in which each
active voice line uses approximately only 23Kbps of total data
throughput, upstream and downstream.
The
amount of bandwidth that
a VoIP provider requires to make a quality telephone call is only one
thing to consider when choosing a VoIP service provider. In fact, there
are many things to consider when choosing a VoIP provider. An educated
consumer generally results in a satisfied consumer.
Please
see VoIP things to
consider article (http://www.voipchoices.com/voip-considerations.html)
to find a list of more things to consider when choosing a VoIP
provider. You can also compare VoIP providers side-by-side by price and
features at www.VoIPChoices.com
Chris
Landry is the foremost
authority on residential and small business VoIP providers. Chris is
the founder of http://www.VoIPChoices.com.
Chris has prequalified several high-quality VoIP providers and compares
them by price and features at http://www.VoIPChoices.com
Chris
can be reach via email
at Chris@VoIPChoices.com.
Article
Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chris_Landry
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