Help me save money on lease line .. spending 24,000 a month

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I run a asterisk VOIP server in my office in Saltlake Kolkata.

For this I have two lease lines:
Tata Leased Line Rs.18,000/- 4 Mbps up /4 Mbps down
Meghbela Lease Line Rs. 6000/- 2 Mbps up/2 Mbps down

I need to have 2 connections so that one can be the failover for another connection.

Are there better alternatives for lease line in Kolkata?

Thanks,
 
I am afraid there is none, but how many agents are dialing?
 
Also if you don't have a specific requirement then get a net connection with static ip.
Most isp are near 1:1 contention ratios nowadays when wholesale bandwidth is damn cheap.
 
> Most isp are near 1:1 contention ratios nowadays

The problem in using a regular broadband connection is that the b/w is not symmetric and this causes problem with VOIP. Since for the 40 agents behind the asterisk server the upload / download b/w required is the same.

For the agents when they need to browse the internet I send their internet traffic out of a PFSense router. On this PFSense router I have configured the following broadband connections in the failover mode:

1. Hathway Rs.1250/ 100 mbps/50 mbps Cap of 1024GB then 3mbps unlimited

2. Alliance Broadband Rs. 1500/ 75 mbps/15 mbps No Cap

3. Meghbela Broadband Rs.5500/ 25 mbps/10 mbps Cap of 250 GB, then 4Mbps Unlimited

Any suggestions ?
 
Is this download / upload speed you mentioned?
If yes then consider the connection speed as upload speed not download speed as connection speed.
Like Hathway consider it as a 50mbps connection not 100mbps.
Try the one which has least downtime or lower ping to the sip server address of voip provider.
Hathway has good enough routing wherever present, other two are kolkata specific.

Still way cheaper after backup connections.
You can keep leased for month or two and try main voip load on any of these.
 
> Like Hathway consider it as a 50mbps connection not 100mbps.

Hathway/Alliance/Meghbala blocks port 5060 hence I cannot use it for VOIP.

Also on broadband connections I have seen that the voice breaks.

Maybe the broadband connections do not have as clean of a b/w as leased line?
 
Was not the case when i used voip.
Havn't plugged in my spa voip adapter for years now after whatsapp came into prevalence.
Still you can ask them to unblock it. unless they have some policy.
 
> Still you can ask them to unblock it. unless they have some policy.

I have asked them to ubblock port 5060 but they have refused.
 
Broadband is not ideal for a call centre and plus he has 40 agents dialing.

I checked the price and it was competitive, what you are getting currently. You should try with SIFY, not Wishnet, since it’s expensive.
 

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