Spotty voice & reception.

[KCL655321]

I've been having problems with reception. Some calls people just tell me they can't hear me & to call back in the worst cases & others where they say they can barely hear me. There are many calls that are perfectly clear on both ends & I'm usually fine on my end, but it's hit or miss whether the other end gets a good voice. I recently switched from a slow DSL service that I was lucky to hit Ooma minimum speed levels to satellite that's pulling 20 megs when testing my internet. I know satellite has latency issues, but I'd think the speed would make up for some of that. I also had an issue with there being static on my Panasonic 6.0 dect handsets on the intercom & I figured that was something that had to be a problem with the phones, but I got a new set & the phone calls are still spotty. Any help or any ideas towards what could be causing this? Thanks.

[murphy]

Speed can't make up for the round trip delay time to a satellite in a synchronous orbit. Have you ever noticed on a live news program the up to 5 second delay when the guy in the newsroom asks the reporter in the field a question?

[KCL655321]

About what I figured. Where can you cancel your Ooma so they don't charge the tax BS?

[TheOldGrouch]

So how is it then that satellite internet (Excede specifically) can offer home phone service? Would they not suffer the same delay issue?