During the early days of computers, everything use to go wrong with them. The same could also be said about the Internet. However, today you can surf the Internet for as long as you want and as fast as you can click your mouse. This also applies to voice over ip technology. Although there are many advantages associated with voice over ip, there are also many negatives.

Listed below are 7 excellent reasons not to switch to voip technology even though it will save you a lot of money.

1. There are many people who are now using voice over ip cable internet. If you are using a cable internet connection, you might be able to hear other people clearly but they might not be able to hear you at all. Because they might be unaware that you are on the line they might hang up on you.

2. During voice over ip calls, there may be situations where no one is talking and there is dead air. This might fool you into thinking that you have lost the call just as though you were on a cell phone. Unfortunately, you might find yourself frequently asking questions such as "Are you still there?" or "Can you hear me now?"

3. There are many factors that can influence how voice over ip calls are received or made. This is because voice over ip technology relies on the local phone or cable company. DSL (digital subscriber line) will work better if you live in close proximity to the local phone company. Since high speed cable internet requires that people share the same bandwidth, the quality of it will get worse when more people use it. These factors will affect the quality of voice over ip calls and the quality can change from call to call.

4. Your voip service may disconnect your call if you are placed on hold for a very long time. They do this because they think your voip phone is off the hook and not being used.

5. For no good reason, your voip phone may occasionally stop working. In order to fix this problem, you will probably have to unplug and replug the voip modem, router, and DSL or cable connection in a specific sequence provided by your voip service provider. After doing this several times, you may decide to return to your old local phone company.

6. If your up-line signal is not strong enough, your call may not go through. Then you will probably hear the recording, "Your call cannot be completed at this time."

7. Another disadvantage of voip is that it relies on an Internet connection. What happens if your Internet connection goes down? This means that you will no longer have phone service. As a precaution, you may want to get a cell phone and forward all of your unanswered voice over ip calls to it.

Are these reasons for not switching over to voice over ip technology? This is a question only you can answer and will depend how important each of these reasons are to you?

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