International Call Quality

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by stevepow » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:04 pm

Two calls today to UK - Scotland and England - 30 min each. Worked quite well - no issues to report. We did the *99 thing before both calls. Not sure it mattered. We'll continue our testing...
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Re: International Call Quality

Post by ricon » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:50 am

I made 2 calls to Poland today.
When I called first time They could not hear me.
Second time was perfect

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by internetizen » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:52 pm

What is *99?

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by Aveamantium » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:57 pm

*99 uses the uncompressed G711 Codec (about 80kbps), where a default call is compressed and uses about 40kbps.
Go AVS!

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by stevepow » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:37 am

Panama Calls are still bad - how do I report this or get it sorted out?
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Re: International Call Quality

Post by stevepow » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:55 am

And to add insult to injury, I call the support number today, end up connecting to someone in Manila (great - not!) - and every thing I say to them - everything I say to them - gets echoed - gets echoed - back to me - back to me.

Very annoying. The guy says he doesn't hear the echo and I can hear him fine :-(

Works good for US and some countries, but kind of a bummer that I'd need to use my land line or cell phone to be able to have a decent conversation with support.

I know growing pains - I was about to sign up for premier - the reason for my call, but now...hmm...

The guy is trying, but has no clue...I think.
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Re: International Call Quality

Post by atici » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:46 am

I think this will never be resolved. There are other priorities I imagine. I use google voice for international calls now. Works great.

I'd rather see ooma implement Google Voice extensions :)

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by niknak » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:17 am

stevepow wrote:...end up connecting to someone in Manilla (great - not!) - and every thing I say to them - everything I say to them - gets echoed - gets echoed - back to me - back to me....
Must be in your system...looks like your email is echoing too

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Re: International Call Quality

Post by stevepow » Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:56 am

atici wrote:I use google voice for international calls now. Works great.
Works great for some countries (UK for example), works poorly for others: Panama and apparently the Phillipines.
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Re: International Call Quality

Post by atici » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:02 pm

Surprising. GV works great for every country I tried including cell lines: Turkey, Belgium, UK, ...

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