vendredi 19 juin 2009

Have You Tried VOIP?

By Nik Levesque

When you open up a new account with a phone service provider, it is sometimes a hard task to decide between all the various phones that they make available. With VOIP is can be a lot easier because it is not in the phone where the services mostly lie - it is in the service itself. Get yourself a comfortable headset and you are pretty much good to go.

In the VOIP world there are basically just a few different types of phones that you can choose from. A regular telephone handset, an ip phone and what is known as a soft phone.

A regular telephone handset is exactly what it says that it is. We are all used to these types of phones because chances are we have one in our house on a regular land line. This is basically the same thing except that it uses the service of the VOIP provider instead of the regular land line phone company. These phones plug directly in your existing regular phone jack and the service is provided through what is called an ATA device which is plugged into the phone line as well.

The IP phone looks just like any other phone but it is very different in the way that it works. Instead of this one being installed like the regular telephone handset in the phone jack in your house, it is plugged into your internet provider's internet modem that was given to you when you began receiving internet service.

Finally, there is the soft or software phone solution. This is basically just a headset that you attach to a computer usually by the USB port. With the internet connected computer, you are free to place VOIP calls through your computer and headset. This is basically all done through special VOIP software installed on the computer that allows you to use your computer as a phone.

So basically you have three choices for phones when you decide to go on a VOIP plan. Each one will fill your needs in the specific way they were designed.

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