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New cable ISP says VoIP N/A yet - What's up??

I just had cable/internet installed and assumed most any Cable/DSL ISP would offer the ability to use telephone service via VoIP
According to my new cable ISP they are not/can't offer it 'right now'!!
No one at the cable co can seem to explain why it is not offered right now but they say that they are 'working on it'
Does VoIp telephone service "consume" more bandwith and possible make it a feature that the new cable/internet supplier may not be in a big hurry to "make available"???

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scampgb

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gmd024

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Thanks scampgb - I have since found out that my cable ISP doesn't "support" VoIp - but I just got thru setting up a service with Vonage - I had a little trouble with the choppy rercieption but soon found out that my cable ISP is runnig at 90+% of it's capacity and is working on getting more bandwidth for my (neighborhood)
I appreciate your help

scampgb

Glad I could help. Sorry that it wasn't exactly the answer you expected :-)

Good luck with Vonage. VoIP works well, unless you have bandwidth (more specifically packet loss and latency problems).

Take a look at http://www.testmyvoip.com/ - it'll tell you exactly where you're having troubles :-)

gmd024

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Thanks again scampgb - I'm running a 'ping plotter' test right now to test for problems
I will check out test my voip - a little later today