How are you connecting your land line phones since this is where you have the problem? Also, I would not expect very many calls at the same time with that setup if each call takes 50K you can't get exactly the maximum anyway, maybe 80% of maximum.
Hope this helps. Tom Moore <tommym2...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you've got a bellsouth dsl connection because of the way their system > works even with doing qos on the link you can really only do about 8 calls > before you start to run into problems with their setup. > > Tom > > > -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Timms > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:45 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [asterisk-users] Help with concurrent VoIP calls > > Hi. I'm having trouble figuring out why I'm not able to make many concurrent > VoIP calls on my system. I'm not aiming for a huge number, because I have > purposely bought a low powered system, but I would think that I could get > more. Here are the details: > > I have a small-form-factor Asterisk server with an Intel Atom 230 CPU > (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz FSB) and 512 MB DDR2 533. It is running Ubuntu Server 9.04 > with the default Debian package manager installation of Asterisk. (version > 1.4) > > Here is what is going on: I'm making outgoing calls (with .call files) via > SIP (using Vitelity's service, if anyone wants to know) with about 55.0 ms > latency between my Bellsouth DSL connection & their servers. > I'm using GSM-format prompts with GSM encoding (disallow=all, allow=gsm in > sip.conf) and I'm able to make about 7 concurrent calls. > I have a very fast internet connection, so there is still plenty of > bandwidth, and the "top" command shows that Asterisk is only at about 5% CPU > and 10% RAM. Even with only 7 calls, a landline phone will "skip" > occcasionally, but cell phones have perfect quality. > > I don't think that 7 calls is very many, I'll be happy if I can get 10 > good-sounding calls. Can anyone give suggestions? (If this has been hashed > out elsewhere, I'm happy with a link to more information!) > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > 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 -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users