VoIP issue

[OzKioti]

I've been using VoIP for some years now, but have always had an issue where I can't be heard until the other party stops talking/takes a breath. On the old landline, you could chime in with a comment at any time, and be heard. With my VoIP, I can try to interrupt as much as I like but the other party is completely oblivious to my attempt to interrupt.

I've got used to it, but it's like the old two-way radio protocol, minus the "Over" and "Out"

I'm about to change VoIP service providers, so will see if that changes anything, otherwise there is probably a setting I need to tweak in my ATA - A cisco SPA-122.

Has anyone else experienced this irritating aspect of using VoIP?

 

[IXLR8]

I had Vonage VoIP for a while and had none of those issues. Who is your VoIP provider?

 

[woody]

Sounds like something my in-laws need

 

[OzKioti]

I had Vonage VoIP for a while and had none of those issues. Who is your VoIP provider?

Presently, it's MyNetFone (Australia).

 

[Oaktree]

I had Vonage VoIP for a while and had none of those issues. Who is your VoIP provider?

Likewise, and I never had any issues either. In fact, anyone who has a cellphone or phone service part of a cable bundle is using VoIP anyway.
I think the OP needs to contact his provider and see what they can do.

 

[ponytug]

Never had that issue with VOIP. I suspect it is your provider, or software settings.

All the best,

Peter

 

[RalphVa]

We've VoiP with Xfinity/Comcast. No problems. I have to wait until the other person finishes because I read the captions translatiing what they said on the screen. Have to wait for the captions. I tell them this, in case they're wondering why I don't respond right away.

 

[OzKioti]

OK, thanks everyone for your responses. What it tells me is that what I'm experiencing is not a characteristic of VoIP.

Some time later:
Many many moons ago we got a Panasonic 900MHz cordless system to replace an old wall-mounted phone. The old phone was produced in the 70's - not old enough to have a rotary dial, it had the fancy new style DTMF push button dialling. Anyway, after much searching this morning, I found it, dusted it off & plugged it into the ATA (analogue telephone adapter) and it works like a charm. Just like in the old days using copper wire from the nearest exchange!

So the problem is the cordless phone. I phoned my neighbour, and no problems at all with the old phone, but when we tried again using the cordless phone, he can hear me interrupting, but when he tried to interrupt me, all I heard was very short fragments of what he was trying to say.

So thanks again everyone.
Cheers

 

[kcflhrc]

You can't quite bundle all VOIP Devices together because they are night and day different. Voice takes a lot of bandwidth and has to be given packet priority since voice won't retransmit but data packets will. Anyway, lots of differences in them.

 

[cqaigy2]

You can't quite bundle all VOIP Devices together because they are night and day different. Voice takes a lot of bandwidth and has to be given packet priority since voice won't retransmit but data packets will. Anyway, lots of differences in them.

A lot of band width is relative, especially with the newer codecs. They typically attempt to do some sort of QOS so latency issues and fragmentation don't make the sound crappy. Funny, humans are really sensitive to network issues where audio is concerned, but video we can let things slide quite a bit.

Where i work, the courts very rarely call about video, but audio issues, is pretty routine.