My one year contract is finished and I originally signed for a second year. But MJ is still plagued with problems on voice quality and I'm considering a change. Ooma has good reviews on Amazon and you can buy the box for less than $250.
Are there any opinions from the membership on Ooma?
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crackerjack
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Re: Change
Cant speak to OOMA but most voice quality problems are directly related to the integrity/stability of your internet connection. Have you tried the VOIP analyses at testmyvoip.com and http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/?sligg wrote:My one year contract is finished and I originally signed for a second year. But MJ is still plagued with problems on voice quality and I'm considering a change. Ooma has good reviews on Amazon and you can buy the box for less than $250.
Are there any opinions from the membership on Ooma?
You should also download the trial of pingplotter pro from pingplotter.com.
If your 'net connection is wacky, no voip solution is going to be acceptable.
I assume you are using a decent quality phone and have tweaked the priority of the MJ process in Windoze task manager.
At this stage of mj's development you cannot attribute this type of issue to the MJ setup. Must be something on your side.
Have you tried your MJ from a different location like a neighbor or work PC?
HTH
Crackerjack
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Darkman90808
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This made me do a search and I came up with this... http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004946.htmllaserjobs wrote:Ooma is a joke!!!
Peer to peer calling, no thanks.
I read something similar previously about how Ooma works but didn't really understand; now, it makes more sense. I have a hard time believing the Ooma model can be sustained.
I can't help but continue to go back to the early, and too often, current performance of cell phones. Cell phone towers were scarce and service sketchy. Dropped calls were the norm. In some cases, they still are.
As technology continues to expand the limits of bandwidth, I have to believe VoIP service will improve the way cell phones have.
(Sorry, for the philosophical data dump but I had insomnia this morning.)
Re: Change
Ooma sounds suspect to me. I don't see how they can make a 1-time hardware sale and provide "free" service in perpetuity. They must have some ideas that the hardware won't last longer than 2-3 years.crackerjack wrote:Cant speak to OOMA but most voice quality problems are directly related to the integrity/stability of your internet connection.
But, I read somewhere that MJ uses a less efficient codec (doesn't compress as much) so it wouldn't compete with other desktop activity. What I read said that a different codec could be used in an ATA device, reducing bandwidth 4 times.
If that's true, then it's conceivable that a service like Ooma which uses a dedicated piece of hardware could be better at getting around a user's network problems.
Mark