Poitou-Charentes - Free France telephone (Page 2): The AngloINFO Forum

Voice Over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice comunications over ip networks. The internet is an ip network.

Telecoms providors are now using this technology to route calls from the home and through the internet. However the internet is a digital media and your telephone call is converted into a digital signal and sent in packets of data, this is sometimes where there can be a problem with voip, some of the packets of data get either lost or dropped and you end up with a poor quality conversation.

There are a number of things that can go wrong, many of them outside of the scope of your isp, for example a faulty router or switch.

One area that you can test is your line speed, a slow speed on a supposed fast line would indicate that there a line quality issues. What is your package speed with your isp? What does your line test at on www.speedtest.net

Let me know
regards
Mike

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Paul and Anne replied on 07/11/2009 at 22:28

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Hi Patricia,

We are so fed up with the high bills we have been getting with France Telecom that we are finally researching what is the best for us.

We have a phone line and computer, and lots of other people seem tobe offering a much better deal than France Telecom but are there systems as good.

We have noticed SFR have offered 29.90 a month with free calls and wi fi connection, is that what you are going with and I wonder what is the best provider at the best price.

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Bucket replied on 15/11/2009 at 14:39

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Not only are SFR €29.90 per month but they take over the France Telecom line rental as well so you don't pay anything to France Telecom.

We've been with SFR for almost 2 years and the only extra are call to mobile phones.

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Decs replied on 15/11/2009 at 15:40

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Hi, my speedtest reads

Download.... 0.74mbs

Upload..... 0.16mbs

Looking at the average mine seems to be very poor, can anyone confirm this please?