Considering that the FCC recently fined one U.S. ISP for blocking VOIP ports, it's hard to believe that another U.S. ISP would try this. I guess it's possible though I think it's more likely that the problem may just be due to congestion.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dustin Goodwin > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:39 PM > To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > Subject: [nycwireless] Article: Trouble on the line (About > vonage be blocked/degraded by ISPs) > > > Anyone had to drop Vonage because of suspicious quality issues? > > - Dustin - > > http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1747343,00.html > > *hursday April 6, 2006 > The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>* > > Theodore Peckler lives in Monrovia, California, and is one of the 1.5 > million people in the US who uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) > systems to make cheap phone calls via his cable modem connection. But > last year, after five months using the VoIP service from the > US provider > Vonage without problems, he noticed an abrupt deterioration. > "The line > was choppy, very choppy and you could not understand any > words spoken," > he recalls. Puzzled, Peckler ran pingplotter - a program to detect > problems such as packet loss and latency (delays in sending over the > separate "packets" of internet traffic). It revealed major latency > between his cable modem and local internet service provider (ISP). > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/302 - Release > Date: 4/5/2006 > > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
