Woody wrote:
> "Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote in
> message news:ft0t2e$ge9$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> BC wrote:
>>> A work colleague wants to start using voip over her cable broadband
>>> and eventualy cancel her BT line rental.
>>>
>>> I use voip.co.uk myself but as they are not currently taking
>>> residential customers we are looking for other recommendations.
>>> Sipgate is not an option as she will need to be able to port her BT
>>> number over once the account is up and running.
>>>
>>> Thoughts and recommendations would be most welcome.
>> speaking from personal experience, if she is planning on using virgin
>> cable connection I would advise against canceling BT line as it will
>> cost £100 to get it re-connected when she finds Virgin next to
>> useless.
>>
>> Others have used and I'm sure still use cable for voip without
>> problem, I ended up scrapping cable completely in favour of ADSL/BT as
>> cable is still on the slippery slope to oblivion where only the
>> customer gets completely shafted.
>>
>> Sipgate for free incoming number and one of the betamax companies for
>> outgoing.
>>
>> I only get around 1.5Mbps on adsl at home and even that is better for
>> voip than the rubbish virgin were claiming as a 10Mbps cable
>> connection.
>>
>> Cable is dead in the UK.
>> Long-Live ADSL and 21CN (or whatever it's called)
>>
>> As others have said, changing numbers is no problem at all, I changed
>> the business phone number to an 0845 number provided by voipfone.co.uk
>> Keeping the BT line means anyone that takes a while to get the new
>> number can be dumped to an answerphone with a message giving the new
>> voip number.
>>
>> Other opinions may vary of course.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Pete
>
>
>
> Speak for yourself sunshine, but don't castigate cable across the
> country.
>
> Virgin - as was largely NTL - got to where it is by taking over other
> cable companies, and not all cable structures were as good as others.
> Here I pay for 4Mb and get 4Mb (varies between 3967Kb and 4136Kb) and
> rarely have an outage - perhaps three or four in over 6 years.
>
> You don't, incidently, have to have TV and/or phone to have broadband on
> cable - it is available stand-alone, as I have here.
>
>
I tried VM cable the 20 Mb product. In the evening and weekends the per
connection speed was nearly always slower than my 4 Mb adsl account.
Often it would run at about 1 Mb per connection.

The Voip quality was always worse than ADSL and even when the line was
working at 20 Mb it still couldn't stream some US video sites that my
ADSL line could handle without trouble.


If you want to do a lot of large multithread/multiconnection downloads
VM was good.