On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 15:06:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My bandwidth is very very limited. Not more than 140 Kbps on both >> sides at any time. I use G729 as a codec in order to reduce >> consumption. Use the pf.conf below, when VoIP is the only traffic, >> the quality of the calls is excelent with no voice cutting at all. >> Now if I start a download I immediatelly see the quality degrade. >> >> That is why I thought of using some radical policy. > > That's strange; it may be your connection struggles at much lower > bandwidths than nominal - for instance, perhaps it suffers high packet > loss at 80% utilization; TCP could recover, but VoIP might be affected.
Packet loss probably isn't even a factor. Your QoS configuration is only going to affect traffic *from* you, unless you can ask your ISP to prioritize VoIP traffic *to* you you're only tweaking one direction. Plus QoS isn't going to interrupt a packet currently being transmitted, if a large download packet is already going out your VoIP packet is gonna have to wait until its done. The slower your connection the worse the latency can be. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh
