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There is a court case pending in DC regarding Verizon and the performance of Vonage over their DSL lines. Since there is a TOS (Type of Service) header in the packets, and VOIP requires much better networking -- low latency, bunch of tiny little packets, Verizon has allegedly used these header bits to reduce the quality of service to prevent VOIP from working over their DSL lines. They have asked the Public Utilities Commission for incentives to upgrade the areas that are most affected and say that it is that the network they have built is overused -- but web performance is still blazing fast over their network and we should be able to offer Cable over DSL Mr. Commissioner.

I use Vonage over my BellSouth DSL and it seems fine to me -- although, I can use the net in certain ways to make it break up.