Ivor Jones wrote:
> "Ad C" <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1db0ddb9fef5665b98970d@news.metronet.co.u k
>
> [snip]
>
> > Over the last couple of months I have heard of a lot of
> > people having problems with VOIP, Sipgate seems to get
> > more than their fair share. But they are not the only
> > ones.
> >
> > Granted that some problems are configuration, but not all.
> >
> > But I will say it again, a phone system needs to be
> > reliable, just imagine if your trying to run a business.
>
> True, but it was in the early hours of the morning when most people were
> in bed. I didn't even notice it had been off until I saw my error logs. I
> really wouldn't have worried too much if somebody wasn't able to phone me
> at 3am <g>
>

Two Points:-

1 Real phone systems are supposed to have five-nines reliability.

2 I noted your <g>, but you should be aware that 3am for you was 8pm
for a Californian. Do you think it reasonable that their Sipgate
service was unavailable just because you were asleep?

(It's likely that a Californian would use a better VoIP provider; 8x8,
Vonage, Net2Phone etc etc)

-- The PG --