I have been measuring ISP connectivity in many downtown Kitchener locations for comparison and preparation of switching an office over to Eyesurf.net<div><br></div><div>After running voip tests (Montreal location) from this site <a href="http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php">http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php</a> I can confirm they are some of the best results I've seen yet, I.E. low jitter and no packet loss <a href="http://myspeedmtl.netcelerate.net/myspeed/db/report?id=135098">http://myspeedmtl.netcelerate.net/myspeed/db/report?id=135098</a> with MOS of 4.1 and 4.2 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_opinion_score">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_opinion_score</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This office will start using the Eyesurf connection heavily this week for voip calls, so I'll know soon enough how it goes. We can cancel within one month if it doesn't meet our expectations, and the Rogers cable modem is still sitting there "live" ready to switch back to if needed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've been questioning Randy (from Eyesurf), about the configuration of their POTS line and how it can integrate with the rest of our (not Fibernetics) VOIP lines. He has been great to work with. He has come back from Fibernetics with solutions for my requested features. For example, offering to set callerID on the POTS line to different number (DID), that was not theirs! Also they can set the call forwarding to a VOIP number, on busy or no answer, with no problems. This has been such a headache to set up properly on POTS lines with other phone companies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope the connection is stable over time, because I know many other offices (downtown Kitchener) who would consider switching to Eyesurf as well. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:17 PM, John Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvj@golden.net">jvj@golden.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 2011-06-10 11:55, Jason Locklin wrote:<br>
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EyeSurf is totally different, relying on it's own local telephone<br>
infrastructure so is local only, but far more independent.<br>
</blockquote></div>
Found in the <a href="http://www.dslreports.com" target="_blank">www.dslreports.com</a> forums:<br>
"eyesurf IS fibernetics. same people just rebranded for residential connections"<br>
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So the DSL infrastructure mentioned above is the Fibernetics network infrastructure.<br>
Fibernetics is a CLEC.<br>
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For phone service they have VoIP over their DSL and something called ViP that looks like POTS.<br>
I am still looking to see how they provide POTS over the local loop w/o VoIP.<br>
Maybe VoIP-to-POTS equipment at the CO?<br>
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jsquared<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>