What VoIP Is Actually Good For

gManZboy writes "One of the things that's bothered me about VoIP is that other than so-so quality phone service at a cheap price, what's the big deal? I mean so you can now deliver voice mail into e-mail because it's all IP packets, does that mean I should ditch my telecom investment. Well in part 3 of Queue's special report on VoIP (here's part 1, part 2) two authors from Bell Labs help explain actually useful things you might do. Now I get it."

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Sing to the tune of "War (What is it good for)"

[Anonymous Coward]

VoIP
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
VoIP
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
VoIP is something that I despise
For it means destruction of telephone lines
For it means tears in thousands of executives' eyes
When their trucks go out to remove their telephone lines

Re:Sing to the tune of "War (What is it good for)"

[glenebob]

Good God, y'all!

Re:Sing to the tune of "War (What is it good for)"

[Anonymous Coward]

Be disappointed no more. I was the one who posted it.

Isn't it obvious?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you run a modem over VOIP, you can then dial into the Internet without a phone line. Now any computer with a broadband connection can surf the web in luxury at an amazing 56kbps!

Team Gaming

[Enrique1218]

When you need cover fire to plant a frag on some fool's camp spot, that crappy voip over is 100X better than typing.

Tech support call, enhanced with VOIP

[d3ity]

Telco company: Hello, welcome to genericom, how may i assist you. Me: My pho....pho....ne.... is laa...a..aaaa....a..g.... Telco company: Whats that sir, I cant quite understand you. Me: My god....amn....phon...is....lagg... Telco Company: Sir, your going to have to speak more clearly...

Question marks

[Kinkify]

does that mean I should ditch my telecom investment.

Don't you think question marks are just the worst.

I mean really, who actually bothers anymore.

Woah Woah Woah

[Anonymous Coward]

more important than all the current porn traffic

Let's stop this crazy talk before it begins!

Re:VOIP

[sphealey]

> If you had end-to-end, trusted QoS,
> lag would never be noticable.

I think that is called a "circuit".

sPj

When CallerID says "VOIP caller"...

[IvyMike]

...it usually means I'm getting a phone call from an international telemarketer.

Last week, I got a VOIP call from a telemarketer named "Steve Dallas". Although you wouldn't think that someone named "Steve Dallas" would have such a strong Indian accent.

Re:In use?

[tim_mathews]

Could you imagine you're enjoying a 45 days holiday in Europe (or in New Zealand, which is really cool!)

No. I'm still working on what it would be like to have free weekends.

Re:Convergence = VOIP Spam

[TheLink]

Worse: your spouse/beloved answers your phone and hears a sexy voice saying "Hi, I saw you at the party..."... or "Brandy and I had a great time last night, we'd like to see more of you...".

Re:Isn't it obvious? yes it is!

[Tmack]

Yeh!! and then once you have that VoIP modem line up, setup two more, since that new bandwidth can handle more lines. Then do the same over them, dial in with line-sharing multilink ppp protocol to another VoIP provider, and do it again! You should have a DS3 worth of bandwidth pumping through that already over-shared T1 in no time!!

Tm

/obvious