How do you find the sound quality of a VOIP call?
And with VOIP I mean I have a Gigaset A540 cordless handset with a "real phone number", the base station of which is plugged into my router with data traffic priority.
I got it when I gave up my Telkom line, it was supposed to be ported so I kept my number, but something in the process got held up (Telkom said the account I've been paying for 15 years belonged to someone other than me).
At the time I was told the reason the VOIP handsets are relatively expensive, is because they have high quality codecs which uses proprietary (licenced) technology, which e.g. the free software versions don't have.
I say all this because the actual voice quality if I make a call is not great at all, in fact you can sometimes not really hear what the other person is really saying. Disappointing. I wonder if that is the norm?
Cellphone calls are better but still not as clear as I remember good old Telkom to Telkom phone calls used to be. It's as if things appear better now, but are not really.
I was amazed how clear e.g. a Whatsapp call can be, even halfway around the world - obviously that is utilizing the full potential of the microphone & speaker quality of your phone hardware, while the standard cell phone call protocol is still the same as 20 years ago.
And with VOIP I mean I have a Gigaset A540 cordless handset with a "real phone number", the base station of which is plugged into my router with data traffic priority.
I got it when I gave up my Telkom line, it was supposed to be ported so I kept my number, but something in the process got held up (Telkom said the account I've been paying for 15 years belonged to someone other than me).
At the time I was told the reason the VOIP handsets are relatively expensive, is because they have high quality codecs which uses proprietary (licenced) technology, which e.g. the free software versions don't have.
I say all this because the actual voice quality if I make a call is not great at all, in fact you can sometimes not really hear what the other person is really saying. Disappointing. I wonder if that is the norm?
Cellphone calls are better but still not as clear as I remember good old Telkom to Telkom phone calls used to be. It's as if things appear better now, but are not really.
I was amazed how clear e.g. a Whatsapp call can be, even halfway around the world - obviously that is utilizing the full potential of the microphone & speaker quality of your phone hardware, while the standard cell phone call protocol is still the same as 20 years ago.