The trick does seem to make sure you have the right hardware platform underneath. I have high hopes for the Netgear boxes that should be in my hands tomorrow. Will report...
j On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, SIP wrote: > I've had similar results to you. Packet loss even when not transcoding. > Overall poor performance across the board. We considered it a failed > experiment. > > N. > > Zoaaaaa wrote: >> I have played with DD-WRT on linksys wrt54g version 5 last week (2 >> different ones, they are the model with less memory so i needed to use >> the micro version). I tried to use it as a repeater. (might have >> something to do with it) >> >> So far i read reports on great succes everywhere, my experience are not >> as good, the machines become highly unstable and i experienced heavy >> packetloss at random times. Encryption didn't work at all. >> Maybe other versions (with more memory or faster CPU's) are better, but >> my results were a disaster and i would not consider running Asterisk on >> top of that. >> >> Joachim >> >> David Cook wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> 1) The latest 8.09 kamikaze no longer supports the Broadcom radios, so ... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Because of closed-source drivers the Broadcom chips only work on the 2.4 >>> series kernels. OpenWRT does make a 2.4 kernel version _and_ a 2.6 kernel >>> version. Use the 2.4 and the radios work fine. >>> >>> >>> >>>> 2) I suppose this should have been clear to me from the start, but without >>>> an external (or hacked internal) storage of some kind, running asterisk on >>>> >>>> >>> Make sure you have the right version number within the Linksys model. They >>> changed drastically the RAM/Flash in the units (downward) as the production >>> ran on. There are some charts online to go by. But the skinny is use a >>> WRT54GS v4 or lower. V1.1 & 2 were the "good" ones with double the RAM. >>> >>> >>> >>>> 3) OpenWRT seems to be less stable and not as mature as dd-wrt, which I >>>> >>>> >>> I guess this is someone subjective and OpenWRT is somewhat in flux with 2 >>> products under the same brand right now. >>> >>> White Russian was the previous release which is still available. Used >>> predominantly NVRAM configs and had a smaller audience of platforms that it >>> would support. It did however have a great GUI with lots of features. >>> >>> Kamikaze is the "new" version which has moved to more traditional config >>> files and has an objective to be more platform agnostic. >>> >>> As a long-time White Russian user I admit the GUI has a long way to go >>> before it can be considered a replacement for the White Russian version. I >>> myself have never encountered stability problems with either version. >>> >>> Not sure how much DD-WRT has improved. A few years back OpenWRT was the >>> clear winner (in my mind - no flames please) and I haven't re-evaluated the >>> competition lately. >>> >>> -dbc. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >>> >>> AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >>> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >>> >>> asterisk-users mailing list >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users