TIPS A FREE Internet backup for VoIP service?

[tycho]

I mostly lurk here and on DSLR. Have there for over 22 years. Have here for maybe a decade or more? But I read just about everything in the relevant threads in both places. And -- having no horse in any of these races -- I gotta say that you often come off unnecessarily combative. Not sure why.

I'm reading this thread because I am uber-familiar with Freedompop: the topic of this thread (as opposed to a thread about "how much bandwidth is required for an office of undefined size for a undefined hour during the day.") I was the one up-thread who initially (back in June '21) pointed out that a subscriber only gets 25 (free) MB with the subject Freedompop plan that @KNERD created this thread about, all excited-like. @KNERD immediately replied to my comment (clearly less excited, in retraction-mode): "With 25MB you could hardly do anything with that, Maybe 1 hour or so a month outage with a busy office?" The meat of his message was in the first clause -- that maybe the subject Freedompop free plan isn't really the perfect VoIP fail-over . His second clause is -- pretty obviously -- a hasty afterthought.

As long as we are being clear here: sure, you never said "it was wrong or bad", but you might as well have. Funny how "everyone" took your questions about an ancient throw-away comment as an "attack." Maybe they, also, saw a bit of an accusatory edge to those "Did you or did you not do your homework?" questions. An edge reinforced by the follow-ups. Just sayin'. "Not your fault?" If everyone in a room forms the same opinion in response to something that is said/posted, maybe those listeners/readers are on to something. Hmmmmmmm?

It turns out that we have actually spoken; back in the Circlenet days. But nothing that I write above has anything to do with our personal interactions (which were always fine). My observations today are basically a final "jeeze, dude; chill a bit!" outburst driven by reading you posts, here and elsewhere, for a loooong time.

 

[Samot]

It turns out that we have actually spoken; back in the Circlenet days

I am unaware of what Circlenet is and I've only been using this nick for about 6 years or so. My involvement in any voip related forums, sites, IRC would previously would have been under something related to the companies I was at. So I've been here for not even 3 years under my personal account and DSLR for 5 years.

So I'm not sure what Samot you talked to back in the Circlenet days but it wasn't me.

 

[KNERD]

How did you come to this conclusion? How did you determine that a VoIP backup connection with 25MB of data transfer will only last 1 hour or so in a busy office?

Because in an office , we had set up a LTE connection for VoIP after endless complaints about Comcast. We set them up on a 2GB per month plan, and it proved to be not enough. This was for an attorney office with maybe six persons.

It's called empirical experience

 

[Samot]

Because in an office , we had set up a LTE connection for VoIP after endless complaints about Comcast. We set them up on a 2GB per month plan, and it proved to be not enough. This was for an attorney office with maybe six persons.

It's called empirical experience

Cool. As I already said, 25MB of data transfer isn't suitable for any size office or even a single user that wants to do more than 5 minutes or so of calling in the month. There's a lot of data transfer involved with RTP.