VOIP through Vonage in Hyderabad
Finally, I have broadband at home in Hyderabad. [ This is my first post from home ]. I signed up for the unlimited service which costs Rs1000+tax and provides a 256KBPS speed on downloads and 64/128 on uploads. Service is provided by SIFY and the qualityof the service is excellent. On initial pings to the gateway at their facility, we saw delays of 15ms and the installer called up the central office and some how got it down to 5ms.
My first test was to setup the Netgear Wireless Router and program the static IP. This required the installer to call in again with the mac address of the router and once that was added, everything worked liked a charm. I Was able to configure the wireless lan, and tested various sites including the ones in US which were blazing fast compared to what I have seen in my past experiences in Hyderabad.
Next I embarked on connecting the vonage router that I badly needed to keep in touch with friends and family back in the U.S. We hooked up the vonage router which comes with a nice feature of 110/220v adapter to the 220v power and connected it using a cat5 cable to the netgear router. My first call to the US was audible, but had a lot of packet drops and upon investigation, I found that vonage provides a bandwidth saver for connections that were not Cable/DSL quality. Couple of clicks on the vonage site, a reboot of the entire equipment after a couple of hours changed the call quality from worse to excellent. Since then, I called a couple of you from my new line and I could not hear any delays that you would normally hear on a VOIP line.
You will need :
1. A Wireless Router ( Get the ones that can take static ip + uid/password ). Do look for a 220v adapter for your router, its a pain to attach a converter in front of the adapter and the heat generated by the 110v to 220v converter is making me nervous.. I may go out and get a 220v adapter for the router tomorrow.
2. Basic Vonage adapter.. comes with the 110v/220v power cord.. so no issues here
3. A UPS would be a good addition, I will look for some during my first visit to the computer shops in ameerpet and will report back on how that goes.
4. A basic phone setup.. again, look for adapters that support 220v, using a 220 to 110v converter for the long term is a pain.
3 comments:
can I talk on the vonage phone located in india on a sify network without switching on the system and clicking on the sify's icon to connect to the internet?
any help is really appreciated
Govt moves to cut off phoneys in Net telephony
NEW DELHI: After blogs and websites, the government is planning a clampdown on BPOs and KPOs over, what it feels is, illegal use of internet telephony.
It is giving final touches to a proposal under which ITeS companies must furnish the names of authorised service providers from whom bandwidth and internet telephony minutes have been taken. The companies will also have to give an undertaking that they will not use the services of unlicensed foreign service providers such as Net2Phone, Vonage, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet, Euros, Skype and Yahoo.
As per Department of Telecommunications’ (DOT) estimates, these unlicensed service companies provide 30 million minutes of internet telephony per month to corporates, call centres and BPOs in the country.
According to official sources, foreign players such as Skype, in addition to disturbing the level-playing field for bonafide licensees, were also causing great revenue loss to the government as they did not pay the 12% service tax and 6% revenue share on internet telephony. Sources said DoT was keen to implement this move on security grounds too. Foreign service providers could be a “serious security threat as they did not come under any Indian regulator and policy framework,” they added.
The CEO of a leading BPO company claimed, on conditions of anonymity, that the larger ITeS organisations were well aware of regulatory issues, and were abiding by the law, but pointed out that the issue may be more prevalent in case of smaller BPOs. “However, one also needs to keep in mind that technology is changing rapidly and it will be hard to monitor such things. The policy in the next few years also needs to look at cost-effective technologies that offer significant economic benefits to businesses,” the executive said.
The government move, when implemented, will fulfil a long-pending demand of internet service providers (ISPs). Internet Service Providers Association of India president Rajesh Chharia said: “It is essential that the government seeks this undertaking from call centres as these foreign service providers do not possess the requisite licences as mandated by the Government of India for Indian ISPs.”
Once this proposal is implemented, the government, in case of an emergency, would be able to trace details of all internet telephony minutes. This is because, when minutes are purchased from authorised players, the company is mandated to provide any data pertaining to the use of internet telephony like call detail record, if required by the security agencies.
ISPAI has also demanded that the DoT put a notice on its websites indicating the names of operational ISPs having internet telephony licenses so that call centres and BPOs can ensure that they are availing services from an authorised service provider.
Can you tell me which router you are using? I believe that the router should have the capability to take Uid and Pwd for the static IP and would like to know which are those avlbl in India.
Your article is very informative
Thanks
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