[GreenKeys] Close enough?

[Chris Elmquist]

And then there is VoIP, which, IMHO, is completely useless for
communications.

The IT Crowd here has bet the farm on this and doubled down with VoIP
speaker phones that integrate with their precious Microsoft Link service.

All of this garbage makes for embarrassing conference calls with customers
where nobody can understand a word anyone has said (because it's all
"pixelated", which is an interesting application of a video phenomenon
to audio), the call drops repeatedly throughout the meeting (but that's
only after the wasted 15 minutes at the beginning while they screw around
with a PC trying to establish the call) and then we all leave wondering
WTF was accomplish over that last hour.

I've kept a POTS line in service at my house because I could actually
communicate over it but recently CenturyTel who bought Qwest who bought
Northwestern Bell have been unable to fix the hum and static on my circuit
which now renders that useless.  Where do I get telephone service that
actually works now?

I'm thinking about moving to a cabin in the mountains and writing
manifestos...

Chris N0JCF

On Thursday (03/14/2013 at 02:31PM +0000), Sheldon Daitch wrote:
> 
> "Remember Toll Quality? Now the gold standard is a hand held radio, which most people call a cell phone or mobile."
> 
> Many years ago, I was working with a contractor who was replacing a Mitel analog electronic telephone switch with a Rolm Redwood Digital switch.
> 
> I realized the Redwood desk sets didn't seem to sound as good as the analog desk sets used with the Mitel and complained to the contractor.
> 
> He finally said, you are right.  The frequency response on the digital phones rolled off just above 3 KHz, tighter than the analog phones.  He
> said most people never notice, about 95% or more never hear the difference. I retorted that that 5% all worked in our building.
> 
> On the toll circuits, today, it is virtually impossible to tell the difference between a toll circuit and a local circuit.  Some of this is due to the digital circuits, but perhaps more is that local circuit have exactly the same frequency response as toll circuits.  
> 
> Granted, I am not recommending we go back to analog MUX systems, but sometimes progress isn't all progress.
> 
> 73
> 
> Sheldon
> 
> 
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Chris Elmquist