Thursday, February 01, 2007

First phone call

We received our first phone call on the new system last night. Our youngest daughter, Laura, had tried to phone the night before when the network was down. We were really pleased that she was able to get through this time.

The call quality was excellent. There wasn't the delay we used to get nor was there the echo of our own voices. It was better than the Skype calls we had made which tended to break up at times. I imagine that is because voice calls get priority over data traffic on our system and even though Skype uses a different port to data it still shares the same bandwidth.

Full marks go to Clear Communications. They said that the microwave/ADSL hybrid system would make the VoIP phone workable and they were right.

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