VoIP over 3g/4g

[Slashdpc]

I live in Atlanta, Duluth specifically, and lately I've been experimenting with running Groove IP over 3g/4g. So far, in my house and in the car, I've had great success and have started to stay logged into the app regardless of when and where I am. I'm on the T-Mobile 100 minute, $30/month prepaid plan.

Anyone else experimenting? If so, what are your results and opinions so far?



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[yfan]

I don't use GrooveIP; I chose to go with Talkatone. It works well for me, both over wifi and 3G/4G. I rarely use my plan minutes. Good thing too, since I'm on the same plan as you.

 

[wunderbar]

yea uaully voip over 3G/4G works decently enough. voice doesn't actually need a lot of bandwidth.

 

[greydarrah]

I find calls that I make tend to be more consistent than when someone calls me.

 

[yfan]

Just an update - I just decided to try GrooVe IP again today, and was quite surprised to find that my previous issues were gone. In addition, calls just sounded better than Talkatone. A big advantage for Groove IP is that it neutralizes the native phone - for Google Voice, when the call is forwarded and you have Groove IP on - both the Groove IP and the native phones start ringing but Groove IP quickly kills the native phone process. This is something Talkatone did not do. Yes, Talkatone premium could simply disable the forwarding when the it turned on, thus only ringing on Talkatone. The problem with that was that if the Internet connection suddenly dropped and Talkatone got disconnected (as opposed to signing out of it), the setting not to forward would remain in place and I wouldn't be able to receive any calls.

Now I'm a Groove IP convert.