Who is the best home VOIP provider to use?

mate im using iinet naked DSL bundled with a voip plan. For me its not very reliable, however saying this the cabling in my house sucks and i think half the problems are because of this. I will let you know if the drop-outs stop when i re-cable the house. (which should be soon)

Blacky wrote:the cabling in my house sucks and i think half the problems are because of this

That's why you're supposed to be a registered cabler to do that sorta work

I've used iiNet and TPG before.

iiNet had the full suite of features - DID, calling number display, voicemail that sorta thing and I had it setup to take multiple simultaneous outgoing calls, no downtime.

TPG didn't even have a DID, had terrible customer service and I only got it working on a TPG supplied modem (Netcomm POS) with custom firmware.

Just keep in mind that whatever voip provider you use, chances are they don't support SRTP so your voice is bouncing around the internet with no encryption.

Oh also forgot to mention Blacky that your dropout problems may be related to issues between your client and your SIP registrar. Many SIP SGW's drop registration time to clients behind a NAS. From memory iiNet dropped it from 10 minutes to 30 seconds.

Unless your client supports the timeout period, the registration will expire as if you dropped off the net. Meaning no incoming or outgoing calls for 30 seconds out of every {minimum registration time your client supports}. E.g running various Cisco IOS versions, it was only possible to remain registered 30 out of 60 seconds.

Surely the cabling in your house was installed by a professional and you insisted on seeing of copy of the certification records prior to the handover?

mate, the house has all kinds of dodgy wiring, including some home made 3Phase power setup. Most of it has been fixed by an electrician bar, phone cabling. tv cabling and the shitty runs of telstra cable that seem to come out of no where!

Thats next on the list and yes i will get a licensed cabler to do the phone lines. When i ran the coaxial for the foxtel i did find the phone line joined in two seperate spots in these dodgy little black joiner type boxes. They looked as if they had been there since the 60s.

As for the voip. I will check it out, havnt really played with the SIP settings for over a year. Maybe time to check it out.

cheers

My new place is full of dodgy wiring too. Well it looks dodgy to me anyway. Electrical cables running everywhere unsecured to anything, junction boxes lying on the insulation that sorta thing.

Speaking of dodgy phone, my phone line in the bedroom is a masterpiece. It involves the Telstra line coming into the house to a Telstra plug, no worries there. Follow this up with a phone extension cable that was chopped at one end and fed into the aforementioned Telstra plug, run down the roof (wrapped around power cables in some spots) into another telstra plug with an rj12 adapter then down into the bedroom, coming out of the side of a powerpoint.

Brilliant!

Could probably get much higher ADSL sync if I got a bloke to redo it. Maybe when I get a central filter

I've suggested people use NodePhone from internode and have very positive feedback. As soon as I can go naked I will use their VoIP service.

I'm also a licenced cable guy and I've seen some crap work. Cabling my house has been a little bit of a challenge with every sparky from when the house was a baby use a different piece of timber to nail power onto. But I must say what I have now works quite well and gig to each point is a billion times better than any wireless