A discussion over Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

I live in a holiday village where we have several different committees and meetings, for those not present to attend the meetings we do video conférences using voip.

A few years back the prefered system was skype, we changed to whatsapp last year as we tend to use its messaging facilities and its free.

We have a company who manages our accounts, they prefer using teams, paid for version as they can invoice us for its use … typical accountant.

My question, does it make any difference in band width or speed using one voip against another ?

Today we are on copper using adsl into the building and then wifi but on antother floor below the meeting room. We will get fibre by the end of the year. I have asked for ethernet connection in the room, but that was turned down due to cost of cable and fitting, dismissed as ”use your telephone mobile” … they know only money.

Does one voip work better than another, for me no difference but perhaps you know better ?

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From my experience, and limited knowledge, VOIP is only 8 bit mono - so it shouldn’t use a huge amount of data, or need much bandwidth… my two bob’s worth…

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One thing I forgot to mention - was latency and QOS…

Most VOIP hardware - will prioritise VOIP traffic over other packets…

I should say - not necessarily VOIP hardware - routers and switches etc, on the edge, will probably provide some QOS (quality of service) priority for VOIP traffic over other packets, e.g. video streaming from things like youtube, or TV-streaming like netflix…

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Thanks Daniel, my question was more about is one system better than another.

But i guess all depends on the connection, routing and network traffic for band width.

Going to stick with whatsapp and if they are not happy, they should just turn up at meetings or pay the cist of fibre.