Quality Of Sip Phone Over Vpn From Thailand?

[Darvil]

I'm going to be in bkk in a about a month and a half and will do some remote work. I am required to VPN in to my work which is located in the US and use the phone system there (but I can probably find a way to skip the VPN). I was wondering about how well the quality of the phone works over something like that from bkk; if anyone is using anything similar that is. I'd like to know info on delay and quality and frustrations?

Also, I'll be a few minutes from chong nongsi BTS station in an office. There is a landline there that I'll be using but since its Thailand I don't trust that 100 percent so I intend to use mobile 3g (or whatever I can get) and perhaps tether it for backup with the same intention. How viable is that for this kind of use?

[WilliaminBKK]

I tried and it didn't work for me, I was staying at a hotel and the quality was so poor I gave up I could never figure it out. I was told by the techs just plug and play --- again it could just be the hotel and their internet connection.

My solution was buy a magic jack, forward the VPN phone to that number and it worked without issue, call to and from Canada and the USA are free with Magic Jack, the only problem was my call display showed the MJ number. I also didnt have to carry that stupid boat anchor of a phone around.

[MichaelJohn]

Hi, I use 3CX SIP phone from BKK to UK. It works absolutely fine. If you consider internally in UK to be 10/10 then in BKK 9/10.

I live in Klongsan and have BBB 6Mb Internet.

[barryw52]

I have used Voice Services SIP/VOIP on ASDLinternet here and sometimes on 3G Aircards but on 3G with air card quality definitelynot so good but it will work. Big issue will be does it time out back to your USoffice. I have mainly worked into Australia so the distance is smaller dependingwhich part of US you connecting back to. With the VPN it will make things worsebecause you have the overhead of the VPN incription as well as the internetSIP/VOIP traffic to cope with so avoid VPN if possible. Issue with Hotels and providedinternet services are they can have the necessary port blocked for theseservices to work. Skype will work but often nothing else does.

Is this a serviced office your working from if soask them what works and does not?

[Darvil]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I won't use the VPN as I'll just open a hole in the firewall for myself.

Work is located in Washington state and we use asterix. I was just hoping the sound quality would be good and it seems at least it'll be usable.

Most of the time I won't be on the phone but for those situations it would be great.

Any specific company recommended for 3g that is?