Comments on: If I Switch From Comcast VOIP to Vonage Will I Still Be Able to Use Multiple Phones? http://voipphoneinfo.com/if-i-switch-from-comcast-voip-to-vonage-will-i-still-be-able-to-use-multiple-phones/ Your VOIP Info Site Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: dansinger61 http://voipphoneinfo.com/if-i-switch-from-comcast-voip-to-vonage-will-i-still-be-able-to-use-multiple-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-32 dansinger61 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:34:49 +0000 http://voipphoneinfo.com/if-i-switch-from-comcast-voip-to-vonage-will-i-still-be-able-to-use-multiple-phones/#comment-32 If you already have the wiring set up to route the Comcast phone connection to several phones, the same wiring should work for Vonage. BUT!!! You should know that Comcast Digital Voice and Vonage are NOT the same type of service. Digital voice services offered by cable companies like Comcast and Optimum Voice use a separate, dedicated digital channel to carry your voice data. They do NOT use VoIP technology like Vonage. VoIP is not always very reliable, as the individual voice data packets get routed over the internet the same as all of your other internet traffic. And, as anyone who has ever tried listening to streaming audio knows, this process is not always perfect. Voice packets go lost, or get routed to a slower route and so arrive out of sequence. In the evening, when all of your neighbors are surfing the web, your IP traffic will slow down significantly, so your VoIP will get worse. Digital voice from the cable company does not generally suffer from these problems. If you already have the wiring set up to route the Comcast phone connection to several phones, the same wiring should work for Vonage.

BUT!!! You should know that Comcast Digital Voice and Vonage are NOT the same type of service. Digital voice services offered by cable companies like Comcast and Optimum Voice use a separate, dedicated digital channel to carry your voice data. They do NOT use VoIP technology like Vonage.

VoIP is not always very reliable, as the individual voice data packets get routed over the internet the same as all of your other internet traffic. And, as anyone who has ever tried listening to streaming audio knows, this process is not always perfect. Voice packets go lost, or get routed to a slower route and so arrive out of sequence. In the evening, when all of your neighbors are surfing the web, your IP traffic will slow down significantly, so your VoIP will get worse. Digital voice from the cable company does not generally suffer from these problems.

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