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Is voip different from a regular phone?
And if they are different, is a voip phone a “real” phone? Well…yes. They are different and a voip phone is every bit as real as a traditional phone.
When you make a call using a regular phone, your voice travels over the telephone lines that are strewn from one end of the country to the other. It’s in a form called analog. Analog information is big and takes up a lot of resources, so you’re able to move less traffic over the lines. Also, when your voice leaves your house, the entire voice package takes the same route to its destination.
Voip simply takes your analog conversation and converts it to a digital form, so it can travel more efficiently. It might go over DSL lines, cable, wireless networks, or even satellite. Instead of traveling as a single unit, your conversation is sliced up into neat little packets, which are tagged for identification. Each packet looks for the fastest route to the person you’re talking to, kind of like a race. When they arrive, they’re automatically reassembled and converted back to an analog form. It’s practically instantaneous.