Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-03 Thread Rich Adamson
No, I'm not ignorant of how this works. You'll notice I put it appears bad when I posted my results. Yes, it's not a perfect way to show problems -- but taken with a grain of salt it's not half bad. Especially when sampled over a longer period of time, and if the original poster can correlate

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Bob Goddard
On Friday 01 April 2005 04:28, Joseph Gutowski wrote: Ok, since I guess no one else wanted to bite -- I will. I installed PingPlotter, switched to UDP just to be the same as you, and ran it against sip.broadvoice.com. Absolutley no problems, no packet loss at all. Ran it with all of the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Bob Goddard wrote: The apparent packet loss you are seeing may be just fine tuning of the routers in question. This is the conclusion I came to as well; however, with the way PingPlotter works the router is not sending ICMP unreachables but rather ICMP TTL expired responses. In any case, the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Rich Adamson
The apparent packet loss you are seeing may be just fine tuning of the routers in question. This is the conclusion I came to as well; however, with the way PingPlotter works the router is not sending ICMP unreachables but rather ICMP TTL expired responses. In any case, the routers in

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Rich Adamson wrote: In other words, as the ttl value is increased and additional icmps are sent, you might see what you believe is congestion, but you still don't have any clue as to whether hop #2, #5, or #10 actually was involved with that congestion. Sure. But there is a way around this. The

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Joseph Gutowski
No, I'm not ignorant of how this works. You'll notice I put it appears bad when I posted my results. Yes, it's not a perfect way to show problems -- but taken with a grain of salt it's not half bad. Especially when sampled over a longer period of time, and if the original poster can correlate the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Johnathan Corgan wrote: First off, I have Sprint Broadband Direct internet service, a fixed wireless setup with a 2-5 Mbps downlink and a terrible 128 kbps uplink. So I know I'm in for trouble anyway. The broadvoice edge router (63.251.209.126, their lax site) is another 11 hops away. One hop

RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Kellner, Peter
Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems Johnathan Corgan wrote: First off, I have Sprint Broadband Direct internet service, a fixed wireless setup with a 2-5 Mbps downlink and a terrible 128 kbps uplink. So I know I'm in for trouble anyway. The broadvoice edge router

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:59, Kellner, Peter wrote: Ping runs as a low priority service so it is not realistic to measure response time using ping. Try tracepath. It's not using port 7 and can be used by normal users. -- Steve Szmidt They that would give up essential liberty for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Joseph Gutowski
Ok, since I guess no one else wanted to bite -- I will. I installed PingPlotter, switched to UDP just to be the same as you, and ran it against sip.broadvoice.com. Absolutley no problems, no packet loss at all. Ran it with all of the published proxy addresses, again no problems. I then used the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Joseph Gutowski wrote: I installed PingPlotter, switched to UDP just to be the same as you, and ran it against sip.broadvoice.com. Absolutley no problems, no packet loss at all. Well, that's good to hear. I then used the 63.251.209.126 that you posted, and it was awful (at least it appears awful).

RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
We recently configure an asterisk server to use with an VoIP provider to make calls to a PSTN. We use (voipjet, nufone, diamond) We feel that we haven't got the quality that we hope. Sometimes our calls gets mute, or we feel communication cuts on our phone calls. We have got an QOS

RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Terzi
It is not that simple. But you can begin by doing a traceroute to the many providers at different times of the day. This will see the route changes and time delays between hops to get to VoIP Providers gateways. The best tool I've found for monitoring connections, routes, congestion, is called

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Michael D Schelin
Give me a try! www.shelltel.com And don't use G711 for your calls. invest in the G729 codec. you'll find your calls will start working better. I'm a G729 shop. Thanks Michael D. Schelin 626-814-2454 Max W Blackmer Jr wrote: We recently configure an asterisk server to use with an VoIP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Robert Terzi wrote: The best tool I've found for monitoring connections, routes, congestion, is called PingPlotter. http://pingplotter.com/ It's a shareware visual traceroute. It continually graphs the traceroute style responses. There is a scrollable timeline to view how things change. You

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-29 Thread Adam Goryachev
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 12:36 +0200, Ismael Gil wrote: Hello all, We recently configure an asterisk server to use with an VoIP provider to make calls to a PSTN. We use (voipjet, nufone, diamond) If you find the same problem with multiple ITSP's, then it may not be them that is at fault.