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Is My Home Ready For Voice Over Ip (voip) Telephony?
By Chuck Smith, Sat Dec 10th

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is finally reaching outto thousands of average homes to offer huge savings in telephonecosts. Already popular with the corporate world, VoIP, sometimescalled Internet Telephony, IP telephony, or Internet phone, usesyour computer's broadband connection - not traditional phoneslines - to make long distance, inter-state or local calls.

VoIP works by converting your voice into data, transmitting itover the Internet, and then converting it back into a voicestream so that it can be played on any telephone in the world -almost in the same way your computer transmits email over theInternet.

Less expensive than traditional phones, and convenient -- youjust use your computer or a VoIP-ready phone and a broadbandInternet connection to make your calls -- VoIP makes for goodeconomic sense. Around for a decade now, VoIP has overcometeething problems to come of age, using advances in PC and IPtechnology to provide voice quality telephone calls at lowInternet rates.

Rising Popularity International and state-to-state calls,expensive on conventional phone systems, are available at lowerprices on VoIP. Finding this cost saving and its voice qualityattractive, more home users and businesses are choosing to optfor VoIP.

But, to work well, VoIP needs a good bandwidth connection, suchas broadband cable or DSL. Freely accessible nowadays -- 22% ofAmericans use broadband right now and the numbers are risingeach day -- analysts estimate that 50% of Americans will useVoIP in the next two to three years.

The Ins and Outs of VoIP To use VoIP, you need a broadbandconnection (either cable or DSL), a regular phone or computermicrophone, and a special VoIP router adaptor to connect yourphone to the Internet. And, you'll also need the services of aVoIP service provider, such as Vonage or Skype. Depending on theservice you use, you can either use the telephone connected tothe VoIP router, or call directly from your computer using yourcomputer's microphone and speaker.

Your call connects to your VoIP service provider, and they routethe call to the phone number you dialed, converting the VoIPdata into a plain old telephone call before reaching itsdestination. This is how you connect to any telephone in theworld, regardless of whether the person you are calling is usingVoIP or plain old telephone service.

There are a number of different companies that offer VoIPservices. But make sure they provide good voice quality andreliable support, and comply with Industry Standards. Askpotential

service providers about the security controls they useto ensure your data and identity is safe and not open to hackersor virus attacks. You can test several trial downloads beforeyou choose your VoIP service provider, and you can always visituser forums on the Internet to check out the kind of problemsthat customers experience with these service providers.

Cost Factors Right now, VoIP is fairly inexpensive, averagingaround $15 - $65 per month. This is because the VoIP industryenjoys special tax breaks and other privileges. These privilegesmay be withdrawn in the future, though lobbyists are trying hardnot to let that happen. In any case, VoIP is likely to becomeless expensive as more people turn to it in the future.

In addition, there are a number of free VoIP service providers(who usually have some paid upgraded services) that will allowyou to make free VoIP calls among the users of their network.For example, if you sign up for the free Skype service, you canconnect with any other Skype user and talk for free. VoIP - thePluses and Minuses Apart from the ease of use, people chooseVoIP because it is inexpensive, letting them "phone-trot" anywherever they want to without having to worry about the lengthof a call, how often you call, or the cost when the billarrives. Additionally, with some VoIP services, there are nofixed monthly charges to pay, like a regular phone.

On the other hand, if your Internet connection is down, yourInternet phone is inoperable as well. And, slow IP connectionscan hamper VoIP transmissions, causing problems like echoes,delayed response times or voice failure. It's the sort of thingthat happens when you find it difficult to connect to the Web,or can't download a file, only it affects VoIP more.

Still, with the advances made in VoIP technology over the pastyear or so, and the growing momentum with consumers, VoIP isdefinitely worth looking into for your home. There's even a sitethat will let you test whether your home broadband connection isready for VoIP. Just go to www.TestYourVoIP.com, and test yourhome broadband connection in less than 5 minutes for free.

So take a chance and look into VoIP. You may be surprised at howmuch money you can save every month on phone services -- and youcan brag about your technical savvy to friends, co-workers, andneighbors!

Chuck Smith runs http://www.LGVoIP.com, a resource forinformation about the Voice over IP (VoIP) industry. Find outmore about VoIP, and whether VoIP is right for you, at LG VoIP.

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