VOIP as a business landline?

utilitybroker

billsavings wrote: »

Perhaps you would care to explain how you can avoid paying extra to mobiles,and how you can money on calls you take on them.

The poster will have a job given that suppliers tend to charge more to divert a geographical 01/02 number to a mobile then a landline.

Plus there is no revenue sharing on 01/02 numbers and they are certainly not non geographical.:D

TimBear

I understand that an 01/02 number isn't non-geogrpahical, sorry it's just in my line of work we call them all the same thing (that or inbound services). Sorry for the confusion!

You won't earn money from calls to an 01/02 number either, I meant for the 08 numbers, again sorry for the confusion - I obviously didn't think out my post properly before typing it out, because it's not clear is it. Doh!

It's just another option than having a standard VoIP seat, I only wanted to show there are other services available.

Mark_In_Hampshire

Tutor wrote: »

Hi Mark,

Thanks for you reply. Your advice has been very useful. You make a good point about using payment providers - at the moment I am not charging but will be in the near future so a landline number will probably be an essential.

At the moment I use a wireless connection, provided from a hub but will soon be changing to a wireless router provided by 3G - is this what you have? If so, it would be reassuring to know that it works fine with that set up.

All the best,

I have an E367 modem (good) and an Edimax 3G-6200n wireless router (bit flaky)

Most of the time we see 5Mbps to 6.6Mbps downstream, 1Mbps to 1.7Mbps upstream and a ping time of about 70 so it's fine.

However - our 3G service is particularly good (relative to what others see) thanks to the fact we're in an area where the cell is not congested and have good signal strength.

Our service is with Three, but you may have to experiment with providers to find one with a good signal and performance where you are. The outright speed is less important than the latency (ping time) for VOIP; if it's excessive, your customers will think they're talking to someone on the other side of the world via satellite phone, and if it's very bad (which it can be if it gets very congested) you'll get dropped "packets" so gaps in speech.

Fixed line broadband is better suited to VOIP, we just happen to be "lucky".

Our 3G is "always on" thanks to the router set up, but if yours is not, you'd find the forwarding features Sipgate offers are useful.

Buzby

TimBear wrote: »

You will still require a landline for your broadband connection, though, which is what the VoIP service will work over.

Those lucky enought to have a cable connection have no need for a phone line - my VOIP (using Skype) uses a co-ax cable.

TimBear

Buzby wrote: »

Those lucky enought to have a cable connection have no need for a phone line - my VOIP (using Skype) uses a co-ax cable.

True, but in most instances a landline is required for internet connectivity.