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Is 8mb download spped sufficient for VOIP phone

  • 29-12-2011 7:32pm
    #1
    darabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭


    I am moving house from city to countryside. I can currently work from home as I have good internet speed with UPC. We use VOIP phones.

    Eircom is really expensive as I have to pay for landline rental as well as the broadband.

    I would like to get the 25mb bandwidth but cannot afford it so I was wondering if 8mb would be enought for VOIP?


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  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    <1mbit is sufficient if nothing else is happening in the house, youtube, streaming etc. More important, what's your upload?


  • #3
    AdrianII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    darabbit wrote: »
    I am moving house from city to countryside. I can currently work from home as I have good internet speed with UPC. We use VOIP phones.

    Eircom is really expensive as I have to pay for landline rental as well as the broadband.

    I would like to get the 25mb bandwidth but cannot afford it so I was wondering if 8mb would be enought for VOIP?

    its plenty. As said above 1MB broadband would be good enough


  • #4
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    8MB is plenty, as mentioned above 1MB is even fine whats important though is also your upload speed and more importantly latency.


  • #5
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    I used to make VoIP on a 512kbps/128kbps with wireless latency(~80ms to boards). Not much bandwidth is required and you can usually browse while on the phone but if you've a small upstream be careful as the smallest bit of uploading could mess up your call.


  • #6
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    About 16Kb line is fine depending on what codec it uses!


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  • #7
    omg a kitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭omg a kitty


    +1 to..well everyone
    8Mb is plenty, your latency is what matters. When you've moved, take a speedtest for us and post the ping?


  • #8
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    if u can get digiweb get it... they will give you a phone as part of the bundle


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