I to not claim to be in the same league when it comes to networking as Ben, but I have noticed with some VoIP applications that I use and the people I call that it is often not the problem with "my" network.
Some people I call are in far-off places, with really bad dial-up lines and over time the VoIP call starts to have longer and longer delays due to buffering and re-tries of the data packets. Their lines (and the delays) get worse when "rainy season" arrives, and their signal that is carried part of the way by forty-year old Drop wire with its cracked insulation (used by the telephone company to go from the pole to your house) and partly by barbed wire fence (you really do not want to know where I am calling) so after a while we give up and wait for a bit of fine weather to make the path "better" again by having the Drop and barbed wire dry a bit. ASCII-based email usually gets through "fine" in low quantities, but that is because the daemons are "patient", and just keep retrying. On "my end" of the networking I do not think there are any problems. :-) So gather a bit of data to see if these problems occur when you are calling certain people, or accessing certain websites. Just a thought. md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
