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Old 07-24-2006, 12:40 PM
divoch
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Default Re: Wi-Fi phones, any good?


"R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:rIadnVLuGqYqM1nZnZ2dnUVZ8tydnZ2d@bt.com...
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> "divoch" <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fd0xg.59666$Z61.22642@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
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>> <broadbandera@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1153595732.936752.133370@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
>>> VoIP Phone works like a mobile phone - no PC is required!
>>>snip<
>>> In fact,you can make calls wherever you have Internet
>>> access.

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>> ...except that quite a few free hotspots abroad have only a low bit rate
>> (specifically I know of Czech republic), so the Wi-Fi VoIP phone will
>> have rather poor quality speech connection, I would have thought.
>> divoch
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>>

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> It would have to be a seriously low bit rate not to match 32kbit/s ADPCM!

As far as I know it is just 64kbits/s, not much more than the old dial-up.
Is that
really adequate?
divoch



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