Skype for Business

Get a VoIP account of your choosing and then set up an Asterisk box with some Polycom handsets. This will give you the ability to transfer calls around internally, provide you with voicemail.

Although it does sound like you're trying to get a proper business class (receptionist etc) service on the cheap, which is going to end in tears.
 
So what are you suggesting, to be honest I have just opened up my company and the bills are starting to feel like everlasting, but the problem is, I have just paid £106+ vat for a phone line if I get another one it will add up plus additional £15 p/m on top and it does add up if you know what I mean
 
A lot of companies are going the VoIP route internally (and to some extent internally). Skype is great for cheap calls between employees and whatever but it does seem to have far more noticeable audio drop-out issues than the other VoIP service I've used. I have both, Skype for mobile use and a VoIP service hard-wired to a business class phone and UPS backed (if the computer crashes, my VoIP line doesn't).

PS - it's not so much the bandwidth that causes trouble with Skype/VoIP (so long as you have at least 128kbps* of free bandwidth in both directions) - it's latency that causes problems, and that's a common side-effect of either overloaded lines or over-use of traffic shaping.

* VoIP technically needs 64kbps, but having double that is a good thing.
 
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I have 3 computers running from a 8meg line which is more than sufficient, so now I am really thinking of going through with it.

So which Voip/Skype phone do you sugeest that I should get in order to do all the things I have mentioned above?
 
Wizard Keyaz said:
I have 3 computers running from a 8meg line which is more than sufficient, so now I am really thinking of going through with it.

So which Voip/Skype phone do you sugeest that I should get in order to do all the things I have mentioned above?
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you are still not listening to anyones advice on here about skype are you!

try it yourself go ahead, and then later make a post about the rubbish quality you are recieving from skype.
some people never learn sorry to say.
 
Working on the cheap - check out www.internetcalls.com One can get a normal number for incoming calls - find them excellent. However you need a voip router I am at this moment in time using A billion 7402VGP with a normal phone plugged in - which of course rings for incoming calls. Bit of a nuisance when Bt phone rings at the same time as the voip telephone! There is no one to compete with this (Betamax) company
 
daveyp said:
Skype is a dreadfull service v laggy and echos all the time! Sign up with sipgate and you will see the bigger picture.
with sipgate you recieve your own telephone number for free and if you dont have any credit then you can still recieve phone calls and skype charge you for having a phone number!
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Another vote for sipgate. I use it for home use and can't praise them enough.
 
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