[simanu]

Hi there,

is anyone using BV in Australia? I mean to call from Oz to Oz?

My main voip provider is babble.net which offers very good sound quality with no latence or packet loss when calling to Europe or the US but makes communication almost impossible when calling locally (from Melbourne back to Melbourne).

Being BV based in the US should I expect the same poor quality when calling to Oz?

Thanks,
manny

[telcoman]

Don't think so. I've used StanaPhone for calls within the UK (configuring my Sipura adapter so I just dialled 0 instead of 01144) and it worked fine - the US number even showed up as Caller ID.

[simanu]

Only problem is that Australia is some thousand kilometres away from the UK... Isn't "logical" to assume that packats of data take a long long time to travel from the Southern hemisphere all te way to the USA and then back down South?

I don't know! Not an expert! :lol:

Thanks!

[mberlant]

Logical, yes. Reality, no. I have seven SIP registrations in my home office here in Japan. All of them are serviced in the Americas and all of them have very good quality. Latency is unavoidable as ping times rise, but it is not noticeable to the human ear unless you are making a test call and are listening to both ends of the conversation.

[goodeagle]

I live in Oslo, Norway and call very often to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide with BV. Never any problems with the voice quality. Actually better than the calls I make to most places in Europe. If you have problems, try troubleshooting from OSI layer 1 up.

[mcraighead]

I have been using BV in New Zealand for about 2 months. I often make calls to both Sydney and the Gold Coast and have found that BV's call quality is excellent and in fact I have never had a complaint about the lag or echo which I occasionally get with calls from the US. I would thoroughly recommend BV for calls to Australia or NZ, just make sure that you choose a proxy of BVs which gives you the least packet loss.

[simanu]

Cool, thanks.
This makes me think that babble is not as good as I thought! Whenever I call locally (Melbourne) with Babble people complaint that they can't hear me well. It's a shame, coz 5 pounds per month (for 1000 minutes, which is what I tend to use on a monthly basis) is half the 20US dollars that BV is asking (which is a great rate anyways).

May have to switch soon, there's no point having a voip service that doesn't work well locally.

Many thanks to all.
manny