What are the bandwidth requirements for the Packet8 phone service?
The Packet8 phone service uses advanced compression technology from 8×8 that is based on G.729, an international voice compression standard. Many factors associated with your broadband connection including delay, packet loss and bandwidth can affect audio quality. Generally, the best results are obtained with upstream and downstream bandwidths of greater that 64 kb/s in both directions. Telephone service can be obtained below 64 kb/s but audio quality may be adversely affected. Each active voice line uses approximately 23 kilobits/second of total data throughput, upstream and downstream.
