Asterisk Users, I am thinking about selecting CALLWITHUS as my sip provider. Has anybody ever used them? How was the call quality? DTMF Tones issues? Thanks in advance. -John _________________________________________________________________ Gear up for Halo? 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_MSNHMTxt_1
At 12:32 PM 9/13/2007, you wrote:> I am thinking about selecting CALLWITHUS as my sip provider. Has > anybody ever used them? How was the call quality? DTMF Tones issues?I use them as a a backup and they seem fine. Ira
John, I have used callwithus for almost 9 months. I left Gizmo when they had a doubling of their rates. I probably would have put up with the doubling but the fact that you can set your callerid at callwithus (and not Gizmo) was a big selling point. I have kept a minimum Verizon analog line for local and 911 dialing and I wanted my announced callerid to be my verizon number. With callwithus this is easy. I created a perl script to route the calls wither local to verizon or all else to callwithus. I also opted for the higher quality option. This is something like 1.5 rather than 1 cent/minute. This is not advertised but if you email them they will bump it up for you. I was not happy, at times, with the call quality at the 1 cent rate, although this may differ for you. I connect via iax, but you can also use sip. As far as I am concerned this is a no frills service that has worked for me. Doug On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, John Meksavan wrote:> Asterisk Users, > > I am thinking about selecting CALLWITHUS as my sip provider. Has anybody > ever used them? How was the call quality? DTMF Tones issues? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -John > > _________________________________________________________________ > Gear up for Halo? 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. > http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_MSNHMTxt_1 > > >"Those that sacrifice essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin (1759) **************************** * Doug Crompton * * Richboro, PA 18954 * * 215-431-6307 * * * * doug at crompton.com * * http://www.crompton.com * ****************************
Ira and Doug, Thanks for your inputs. It seems like there are so many mixed reviews on every sip provider. In the past, I have used Broadvoice, Vitelity, and Teliax. All three have all the same problems- call quality and DTMF Tones. Some days, it would work perfectly fine, while on other days you wished you never went the sip route. There has to be some reasonable priced sip provider that would perform just as well as AT&T. Does it exist? -John>From: Ira <ira at extrasensory.com> >Reply-To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial >Discussion<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial >Discussion<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> >Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] CallWithUs Service? >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:44:08 -0700 > >At 12:32 PM 9/13/2007, you wrote: > > I am thinking about selecting CALLWITHUS as my sip provider. Has > > anybody ever used them? How was the call quality? DTMF Tones issues? > >I use them as a a backup and they seem fine. > >Ira > > >_______________________________________________ > >Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. >http://www.astricon.net/ > >--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > >asterisk-users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_________________________________________________________________ Discover sweet stuff waiting for you at the Messenger Cafe.? Claim your treat today! http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_SeptHMtagline2
> There has to be some reasonable priced sip provider that would perform > just as well as AT&T. Does it exist?The problem is that there is no QoS control between you and the provider, so a lot of the quality issues you have are probably not related to the specific provider, but just the "general Internet". Until there is QoS everywhere, nobody is going to perform as well as ATT and certainly not at what everybody thinks is reasonable (1 cent per minute).
On Thursday 13 September 2007 02:32:52 pm John Meksavan wrote:> ? I am thinking about selecting CALLWITHUS as my sip provider. ?Has anybody > ever used them? ?How was the call quality? ?DTMF Tones issues?it was your message that prompted me to take a look at callwithus.com. i currently use diamondcard.us (via iax2) and have had only 2 issues in 9 months where some calls to verizon cell phones would get a congestion signal if they didn't answer instead of going to their voicemail. i called diamondcard and they fixed the trunk issue in a matter of an hour. call quality is decent. after signing up with callwithus.com, i find the call quality to be the same as diamondcard, though diamondcard bills in 30sec increments at 1.7 cents/min in the us and callwithus bills in 1 minute increments at 1.4 cents/min in the us. callwithus also has this thing where if you add a *31 to the number, it will choose their cheapest route. i'd say they are worth trying, so is diamondcard.us. -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070914/517d8f09/attachment.pgp