VoicePulse VoIP Service Review

[dang]

Checkout our latest review of the Voice Pulse VoIP Service (http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review2139.html)Vonage may be the premier name in the VoIP industry, but that may not be the case for too much longer. Voice Pulse offers a similar plan to Vonage with more features.

[llbbl]

Hey Jeff. Did you actually try this thing out?

[jfila]

I sure did. Used it for about a month. It worked great and the filters are pretty cool. Basically like I said in the review, there are some things it does better than Vonage and some things Vonage does better and they just about even up.

I have Vonage and have been using it for a year.

[Ioman]

Hey Jeff. Did you actually try this thing out?

What kind of jerk question is that? No one reviews a product here without trying it.

I think you did a good job Jeff.

[llbbl]

Shut up Ioman i wasn't trying to be a jerk. I wanted to ask him a question and if he played with it for an afternoon he might not be able to answer it.

[llbbl]

I sure did. Used it for about a month. It worked great and the filters are pretty cool. Basically like I said in the review, there are some things it does better than Vonage and some things Vonage does better and they just about even up.

I have Vonage and have been using it for a year.

I have never tried VoiP before. Does it cut down on bandwith or cause lag to other things you are doing on your high speed line? It seems like your ping times would increase dramatically say if you were playing Quake and wanted to call CliitCommander to tell him something.

Also say you are not doing anything, have all the computers disconnected. Does Vonage or Voice Pulse have bad lag after you say something? I tried a telephone internet service like 6 years ago when it was free to see what it was like and there was a couple second delay between time you said something and when the other person hears it.

[senoryoshio]

You're all jerks :cheers

[llbbl]

You're all jerks :cheers
The units of jerk are metres per second cubed (m·s-3). There is no universal agreement on the symbol for jerk, but j is commonly used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk

hmm I wonder if we can measure who was the bigger jerk?

:rolleyes:

[jfila]

There is no lag whatsoever. The amount of bandwidth that VoIP services (at least VoicePulse and Vonage) use is miniscule. My wife has talked on the phone while I was gaming (Call of Duty, FarCry, MOH:Pacific Assault) and neither of us noticed any change or any issues. When browsing the web and even downloading a few files, there is no noticeable effect on the phone or the computer.

If I am really hammering my connection by downloading from newsgroups, you can hear it on the phone. People you talk to won't know but when you listen to them talk, it is all choppy. You can still understand the person, but it is annoying. The person on the other end doesn't know because that is your upload speed, which is not being affected on newsgroups. I wouldn't know about P2P services because I don't use them, but I imagine that if your connection is being hammered both up and down, then you will notice it on the phone.

I've never talked to anyone on the phone who has questioned what kind of phone I was on or said anything about a lag.

My connection is RoadRunner about 380 up and 2200 down.

[llbbl]

cool thanks for the info. that is what I was looking for!

[llbbl]

So how is adding VoiP different than getting DSL / local phone# ?

Only difference is long distance carriers?

[llbbl]

come back Jfila u haven't posted in two months.