VoIP Spear Blog: News & Noise

VoIP Spear Featured on thevoipresources.com

Jan 9, 2021

A while back, I noticed a nice little feature about VoIP Spear at VoIP Resources. It's flattering to see a positive review like this.

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Dealing with Holiday VoIP Traffic

Dec 1, 2020

Thanksgiving might be over but there's still Christmas and New Year's Eve coming. Valentine's Day is also not too far off. There will be a lot of voice traffic in the next few months. You have to be prepared for this. You need to stay accessible with good quality VoIP service; and there are things you can do on your end to ensure this.

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How to Measure VoIP QoS

Jul 30, 2020

Oftentimes, I hear people mention bandwidth when speaking about VoIP QoS (Quality of Service). There seems to a common misconception that bandwidth is the key factor in determining the quality of voice over a network. In reality, this is not true. It's of course important to have enough bandwidth for your VoIP needs, but there are other important qualities of your Internet connection that affect VoIP QoS -- packet loss, latency, and jitter.

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ICMP vs UDP

Dec 16, 2019

VoIP Spear servers work by pinging our users' endpoints. Ping is a nearly ubiquitous network tool that is used to test whether or not a computer/device is reachable across the Internet.

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Hosted VoIP to Take Off Now that "Telephony is Dead"

Nov 25, 2019

I just finished reading an interesting rebuttal to the comments by the ConnectWise CEO that "Telephony is dead."

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