Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 17:29, Steve Szmidt wrote: I'll end up with ADSL too so would you be willing to send me a copy of the config work you did? My rc.tc script is posted in the QoS with sveasoft thread, the archives should have it by the time you get this. Regards, Andrew

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Walt Reed
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:48:13PM -0700, Chris said: - Original Message - From: Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL Assuming you're talking about Random

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Leif Madsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:07:14 -0400, Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a few years now I've operated with cable as the obvious choice, at least in my area where RoadRunner really built up a good network. It could be that for nation wide implementation VoIP really should be on DSL.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Steven P. Donegan
Leif Madsen wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:07:14 -0400, Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a few years now I've operated with cable as the obvious choice, at least in my area where RoadRunner really built up a good network. It could be that for nation wide implementation VoIP really should

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 21:16, Steve Szmidt wrote: I take it you paid $200 for the Sangoma? Yes I did, and it was the best $200 I ever spent on VOIP equipment. Relatively inexpensive and like I said it eliminated the guessing games and queueing garbage. Did you have to get through any

RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:07:14 -0400, Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a few years now I've operated with cable as the obvious choice, at least in my area where RoadRunner really built up a good network. It could be that for nation wide implementation VoIP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Szmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:50 am, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: That's it. After that it built, link went up without any hassle and it's been working great. Now, having said that, I've been having perfect audio for the past 3 weeks but this past

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Szmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:28 pm, Geoff Nordli wrote: I am using Shaw for cable access and Primus as my VSP. I find on a fairly regular basis calls will just drop after 10 minutes or so. The call doesn't hangup but you can't hear each other

[Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Szmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A thought occurred to me; Background; In the early days of cable, the cable people seemed clueless to things like over selling bandwidth. But as time went along they got it better and better under control. Of course their natural

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 12:07, Steve Szmidt wrote: But with VoIP it has to go both ways and things like latency can easily become a big issue. (I have cable and it seems that I get sound degradations much easier than I'm comfortable with, yes it's a shared connection with occational POP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Shaw
- Original Message - From: Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL On Tuesday 03 August 2004 12:07, Steve Szmidt wrote: But with VoIP it has to go both ways

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 19:44, Chris Shaw wrote: QoS isn't going to help you get to talk in a crowded CSMA/CD network. I might be misunderstanding you about QoS, but I know for a fact that it does help greatly because whether you use DSL or Cable, your bridge device (it's not a modem no

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Szmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:06 pm, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: And yes I know all about huge queues...  The cure for that (at least with DSL) is to get a Sangoma S518 -- it's a PCI ADSL modem with drivers for everything...  I just prioritise packets

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Chris
- Original Message - From: Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:06 pm, Andrew Kohlsmith

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Chris
- Original Message - From: Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL On Tuesday 03 August 2004 19:44, Chris Shaw wrote: QoS isn't going to help you get to talk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) writes: The thing that really kills you on the ISP end is RED... it may be great for large traffic but it just KILLS voip... and there's not thing 1 you the customer can do about it... :( Interesting and somewhat disheartening. RED was really meant to put

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Chris
- Original Message - From: Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:47 pm, Chris wrote

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

2004-08-03 Thread Chris
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL - Original Message - From: Steve Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday