Do you use VOIP?

Do you use VOIP?

  • Yes, for the majority of my calls

    Votes: 72 49.3%

  • Occasionally

    Votes: 40 27.4%

  • Rarely

    Votes: 8 5.5%

  • Never

    Votes: 21 14.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 3.4%
  • Total voters
    146
I don’t answer WhatsApp calls. Mofos should spend money to talk to me.
 
bwana said:
Do you use voice over internet protocol (VoIP) calling?
Click to expand...
Wish I could. I have been pleading with Telkom since before first lockdown to get my VOIP system functional. The Yealink base station has lovely green lights and the handset looks prom ising but the network lines never become green and when I try to make a phone call the response is always "line forbidden" all the equipment comes from Telkom but the fibre line is VUMATEL. Have you brainy experts got any advice? I have been sent from 10210 to 10213 and vice versa so many times that I cannot believe them any more. Always just telling me something nice and helpful sounding to get rid of me from the line and the blank "call back" calls are disillusioning.
 
Ron56 said:
Wish I could. I have been pleading with Telkom since before first lockdown to get my VOIP system functional. The Yealink base station has lovely green lights and the handset looks prom ising but the network lines never become green and when I try to make a phone call the response is always "line forbidden" all the equipment comes from Telkom but the fibre line is VUMATEL. Have you brainy experts got any advice? I have been sent from 10210 to 10213 and vice versa so many times that I cannot believe them any more. Always just telling me something nice and helpful sounding to get rid of me from the line and the blank "call back" calls are disillusioning.
Click to expand...
Port to Freshphone or Afrihost.

If you have Internet access, it works.
 
WhatsApp calls, Slack Calls, Teams Calls and Facetime calls a lot.

Occasionally freshphone when I anticipate that I'm going to be on hold to a "normal" line for a while - but usually feels sightly lower quality and slightly more buggy. I don't really like the VOIP / SIP services - feels more buggy to me.

VERY occasionally a normal cellular call, usually if one of the other fails.

I can't imagine when last I used a landline.
 
I use Teams a lot.

My folks use a real VOIP setup with a B315 LTE router connected to their old landline phone. They ported their 021 number to Switchtel after the telkom lines got stollen and telkom was too damn lazy to fix it.
 
airborne said:
WhatsApp calls all the way, very rare these days to have poor voice quality, it’s on par with a conventional gsm call.
Click to expand...

I dare to say WhatsApp, FaceTime call quality are better than GSM calls.

I just googled,
GSM have the bitrate equivalent of about 13kbit/s.
Whatsapp and Facetime around 64kbit/s - but depends on the network quality.

So theoretically if both sides have a semi decent 4G or Wifi connection & device where they are calling from, VOIP quality should always be better than a GSM call.
 
VOIP most of the time. GSM and analogue is just a fallback these days and probably going the way of the fax.
 
Apogee said:
Port to Freshphone or Afrihost.

If you have Internet access, it works.
Click to expand...
Thanks Apogee (+ other members I cannot identify because I cannot see their pseudonyms ) for responding to my wailing about VOIP. Today was a good day. Edrich from the switchboard department of Telkom came to have a look today. He referred me to the single line department and they will hopefully contact me in due time. A forum member said "good luck with getting your number ported" and Edrich confirmed that was the exact problem. My telephone number is still active on the copper line. The accounts department has however registered my VOIP service (which is good, otherwise I would be paying for both lines). Thank you to all the experts who generously share their knowledge.
 
Ron56 said:
Thanks Apogee (+ other members I cannot identify because I cannot see their pseudonyms ) for responding to my wailing about VOIP. Today was a good day. Edrich from the switchboard department of Telkom came to have a look today. He referred me to the single line department and they will hopefully contact me in due time. A forum member said "good luck with getting your number ported" and Edrich confirmed that was the exact problem. My telephone number is still active on the copper line. The accounts department has however registered my VOIP service (which is good, otherwise I would be paying for both lines). Thank you to all the experts who generously share their knowledge.
Click to expand...
The fact that your number is still active on the copper line should not prevent you from porting away.

I did the exact same thing and the number stopped working on the copper line and was converted to a VOIP line automatically when the port was concluded.

You should in fact first port it away, and then cancel with Telkom to ensure that you do not lose the number.
 
Ron56 said:
Thanks Apogee (+ other members I cannot identify because I cannot see their pseudonyms ) for responding to my wailing about VOIP. Today was a good day. Edrich from the switchboard department of Telkom came to have a look today. He referred me to the single line department and they will hopefully contact me in due time. A forum member said "good luck with getting your number ported" and Edrich confirmed that was the exact problem. My telephone number is still active on the copper line. The accounts department has however registered my VOIP service (which is good, otherwise I would be paying for both lines). Thank you to all the experts who generously share their knowledge.
Click to expand...

Apogee said:
The fact that your number is still active on the copper line should not prevent you from porting away.

I did the exact same thing and the number stopped working on the copper line and was converted to a VOIP line automatically when the port was concluded.

You should in fact first port it away, and then cancel with Telkom to ensure that you do not lose the number.
Click to expand...
Thank you, Apogee. I am going to apply your suggestion.
 
Dave said:
Home and office phone lines are both VoIP, mobile calls usually VoLTE or VoWiFi.
Click to expand...

Pretty much the same for me. The home phone line runs over VoIP. Mobile calls are all VoLTE as I have 5G/4G in the places where I would typically make a call (VoWiFi is there too, but Vodafone NZ gives VoLTE priority unless one is in a no coverage area or on the fringes of 4G coverage). No office phone line for me, all that goes over Teams.
 
I run 3CX on a Raspberry Pi with a Freshphone VOIP account running as my main SIP trunk. When I got fibre I ported my my landline number over to Freshphone. I bought a few cheap Yealink T-22Ps, and have extensions all over the house. Plus I bought a SIP intercom, which I've programmed through 3CX to ring on every phone in the house when someone presses the intercom button. Works like a charm.
 
Technically I guess all of us are using VOIP on a daily basis as that is how almost all comms work now, cough. But without being pedantic about it...

....the only reason for VOIP these days in it's classic sense, being a PC with a mic (WhatsApp is VOIP!), is conference calls and gaming.

So GAMING....this is huge now, everybody wants to talk online while gaming. This....is a massive peev for me.

The only time you are allowed to talk while gaming is when you are in sufficiently close proximity to hurl a beer can at your friend who just screwed up and yell at him. How am I supposed to throw beer cans at people online. Its just not the same.

Personally, I've had great hilarity watching my parents do the group online chat thing, with my mother threatening to go past the webcam in the backround naked on a skateboard, and my father shouting into a dead mic "can you hear me" or the opposite, entering a chat room with a live mic when he shouldnt.

Notwithstanding, I personally can't bare this form of communication, I find it too labour intensive to politely seem engaged when you are anything but most of the time. People video calling me drives me to insanity as I'm forced to feign excitement at flower arrangements and idiot children.

I have my own idiot child, your idiot child is not as cute as mine.
 
Jackrum said:
Notwithstanding, I personally can't bare this form of communication, I find it too labour intensive to politely seem engaged when you are anything but most of the time. People video calling me drives me to insanity as I'm forced to feign excitement at flower arrangements and idiot children.

I have my own idiot child, your idiot child is not as cute as mine.
Click to expand...
Not the fault of VOIP, just back off from social media like we did.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X