Re: What vexes VoIP users? - Bufferbloat

2011-03-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jim Gettys writes: > Now that I have mitigated the bufferbloat disaster in my home cable > service via bandwidth shaping, Skype works sooo much better for > me. This is what devices such as Ooma are doing. Unfortunately, it > means you have to defeat features such as Comcast's PowerBoost. Actu

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-04 Thread Scott Helms
This has nothing to do with Vonage and likes that market to consumer - their devices are locked so the consumer is locked into the services that Vonage/MagicJack/etc provides. They are not the companies that are going to eat lunch of cable companies and old school telcos as their business model

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander O. Yuriev
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:08:36PM -0500, Scott Helms wrote: >> No, there's no particulary good technological reason why VOIP-over-cable >> system shouldn't be able to hand off calls to an arbitrary SIP device. >> >> The reason is purely business - it will destroy their own voice service >> user

Re: What vexes VoIP users? - Bufferbloat

2011-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
On 03/01/2011 04:32 AM, William Pitcock wrote: That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans now. I'm not convinced that many people use Vonage in the US - my experience with it was that it was not

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-03 Thread Frank Bulk
Depends on the network, but we use private IPs on the eMTA side of the CM. Frank -Original Message- From: Alexander O. Yuriev [mailto:alex-lists-na...@yuriev.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:48 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? > There's no part

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-03 Thread Scott Helms
On 3/3/2011 3:47 PM, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote: There's no particularly good reason that a VoIP-over-cable system shouldn't be able to hand off calls to an arbitrary SIP device. No, there's no particulary good technological reason why VOIP-over-cable system shouldn't be able to hand off calls to

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander O. Yuriev
> There's no particularly good reason that a VoIP-over-cable system > shouldn't be able to hand off calls to an arbitrary SIP device. No, there's no particulary good technological reason why VOIP-over-cable system shouldn't be able to hand off calls to an arbitrary SIP device. The reason is pure

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:55:16 CST, Frank Bulk said: > > Are you saying that the large MSOs don't use CM configuration files > > that create separate downstream and upstream service flows for Internet, > > voice signaling, and voice bearer t

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
, I was not aware of that, what a management and maintenance nightmare. Do they still do this? Frank -Original Message- From: Scott Helms [mailto:khe...@ispalliance.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:49 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Frank Bulk
, March 02, 2011 9:27 AM > To: frnk...@iname.com > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? > > Frank, > > No, not all. There seems to be some confusion here between the > concept of PacketCable flows which everyone _should_ (but aren't) be >

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Frank Bulk
fault names) may not be representative of other implementations. Frank -Original Message- From: Michael Thomas [mailto:m...@mtcc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:36 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? On 03/02/2011 06:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 11:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: It's worked out great for me in a number of places. OTOH, it was kind of dicey even without the torrents from other places. I found that bandwidth and jitter were the bigger issues than other applications I was sharing the link with. I even managed to

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? Frank, No, not all. There seems to be some confusion here between the concept of PacketCable flows which everyone _should_ (but aren't) be using to prioritize their voice traffic and separate downstream and upstream channels which a few ope

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Frank Bulk
utrality concerns. Frank -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:40 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: 'Scott Helms'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:55:16 CST, Fra

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/02/2011 06:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" Yes, really. The only difference was which L2 channels the RTP packets were flowed onto, which was determined by the MGCP/SIP signalling and interaction with the telephony gateway. Ther

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Frank Bulk
M for voice and the remaining QAMs for data). Frank -Original Message- From: Scott Helms [mailto:khe...@ispalliance.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:27 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? Frank, No, not all. There seems to be some

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
On 3/2/2011 10:40 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:55:16 CST, Frank Bulk said: Are you saying that the large MSOs don't use CM configuration files that create separate downstream and upstream service flows for Internet, voice signaling, and voice bearer traffic? So the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
"What everyone is actually *selling* commercially, except for cable providers, is *not* VoIP; it's a subset of that: VoN; Voice Over Internet; where the IP transport *goes over the public internet*, and through whatever exchange points may be necessary to get from you to the provider. Hmm, I d

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:55:16 CST, Frank Bulk said: > Are you saying that the large MSOs don't use CM configuration files that > create separate downstream and upstream service flows for Internet, > voice signaling, and voice bearer traffic? So the cable company carves out a protected flow for its

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Frank, No, not all. There seems to be some confusion here between the concept of PacketCable flows which everyone _should_ (but aren't) be using to prioritize their voice traffic and separate downstream and upstream channels which a few operators use for voice traffic only. On 3/2/2011

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
As I said, this second channel doesn't exist in almost all cases (its not cost effective nor needed in almost all cases). Having said that over the top VOIP providers do suffer in comparison because they don't get the benefit of prioritization in the local cable plant. "Cost-effective"? Could

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" > Yes, really. The only difference was which L2 channels the RTP > packets were flowed onto, which was determined by the MGCP/SIP > signalling and interaction with the telephony gateway. There > is a **very** complicated state machine that dea

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Bret Palsson" > >> VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same >> RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? > > Well, you try to hold a conversation with someone while there'

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Frank Bulk
esday, March 01, 2011 8:35 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What vexes VoIP users? offered through the various broadband providers I have had. > Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a > cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
IP transport *goes over the public internet*, and >>> through >>> whatever exchange points may be necessary to get from you to the >>> provider. >> >> This is utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand (What vexes VoIP >> users/providers). Further, it'

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" > > I wasn't suggesting QOS. I was suggesting *there's a completely > > separate pipe*, on non-Internet connected IP transport, carrying only the > > voice traffic, directly to a termination point, which is dedicated > > from the triple-play b

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
internet*, and > > through > > whatever exchange points may be necessary to get from you to the > > provider. > > This is utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand (What vexes VoIP > users/providers). Further, it's ridiculous to say that something is a > subset

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
Works just fine. Yes that is one of the many tests we do. It's call partnerships with carriers and prioritization. DSCP works wonders, so do EF queues and policies, yes this is on the carrier side. Sounds like you need a VoIP company that cares. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Ja

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 07:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: As I said, this second channel doesn't exist in almost all cases (its not cost effective nor needed in almost all cases). Having said that over the top VOIP providers do suffer in comparison because they don't get the benefit of prioritization in the l

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 08:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bret Palsson" VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? Well, you try to hold a conversation with someone while there's

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Bret Palsson" > VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same > RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? Well, you try to hold a conversation with someone while there's Torrent traffic going on on the same link, using a third-pa

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 07:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Is IP running over an L2 with a SLA any less "IP" than one without a SLA? That's all the DOCSIS qos is: dynamically creating/tearing down enhanced L2 qos channels for rtp to run over. It's been quite a while since I've been involved, but what we were w

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Scott Helms" > > Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a > > cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP", in the usage in which > > most speakers mean that term -- "Voice Over Internet" is what they > > should be saying, and ca

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
rom you to the > provider. This is utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand (What vexes VoIP users/providers). Further, it's ridiculous to say that something is a subset of something else, and yet not that something else. A1 cannot be a subtype of A without being A. A1 cannot be a su

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Thomas" > >> On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a >>> cable television provider, it is *not* "VoI

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" > On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a > > cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP", in the usage in which > > most speakers mean that term -- "Voice Over In

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Joe Greco
> > There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital > > gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live > > in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you > > very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "William Pitcock" That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans now. I'm not convinced that many people us

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the digital phon

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
offered through the various broadband providers I have had. Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP", in the usage in which most speakers mean that term -- "Voice Over Internet" is what they should be saying, and cable-

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "William Pitcock" > That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. > National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans > now. I'm not convinced that many people use Vonage in the US - my > experience with it was tha

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:25:23 + (GMT) Tim Franklin wrote: > > I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack > > or any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. > > Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP > suggests is the case in the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Tim Franklin
> I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or > any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP suggests is the case in the US, but they are doing something. > It is quite a different market here. I

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:22 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Leigh Porter > wrote: >> Exactly the point I made earlier. POTS is simple, it does what it does and >> it is pretty good at it. Now, in the background, you have a whole lot of >> engineering. But I would trust

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: > Exactly the point I made earlier. POTS is simple, it does what it does and it > is pretty good at it. Now, in the background, you have a whole lot of > engineering. But I would trust a DMS100 far more than any of the stuff that > routes IP.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 2/28/11 10:37 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: >> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >>> this list, not my mother. My mother has comcast voice... they d

Re: [v6z] Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > In my neck of the woods, you can get a basic POTS line for $15/month if > it's important to you, local calls billed by the number of calls and the > normal LD charges. Add a basic DSL service to that ($20) AND add a basic > unlimited VoIP servi

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Owen DeLong" Sad. There are definitely LTE-data-only VOIP handsets in other deployments. Of course. Silly me. :-) Couldn't fine Owens original post, so I'll ask here. Which are these handsets? Could you prov

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread TR Shaw
On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Joe Greco" > >> Yeah, um, well, hate to ruin that glorious illusion of the legacy >> physical plant, but Ma Bell mostly doesn't run copper all the way >> back to a real CO with a real battery room these da

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > > TTBOMK, that isn't *quite* true, yet, Owen. > > > > The only US carrier with LTE deployed is VZW, and their only > > *handset* with LTE is the not-yet-quite-shipped HTC Thunderbolt... > > > That's the US market. We are, as usual, traditionall

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Joe Greco" > Yeah, um, well, hate to ruin that glorious illusion of the legacy > physical plant, but Ma Bell mostly doesn't run copper all the way > back to a real CO with a real battery room these days when they're > deploying new copper. So if you have a ho

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > This "no intermediate gear" term, it does not mean what you think it > means... > > Loading coils, Bridge-Taps, WDFs, Protection Blocks, etc. all could > be classified as intermediate gear. Many of these things have been > the bane of DSL inst

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> - Original Message - > > From: "Joe Greco" > > > With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and > > status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably > > the ability to handle multiple calls intelligently, no hook race > > conditions, etc. > > >

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/28/2011 15:35, Joe Greco wrote: > > There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital > gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live > in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you > very carefully select your gear and s

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 23:15, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Joe Greco" > >> With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and >> status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably >> the ability to handle multiple calls intelligentl

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> > So let's look for a rational comparison instead. > > > > Take your CD player's analog audio output and run it fifty feet, > > making sure to route it along some nice fluorescent lights. Even > > with a good shielded cable, analog signal is notorious for picking > > up noise. > > > > Now take y

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > Pretty soon, cell phones will, essentially, be VOIP devices. In fact, > some already are. > > In fact, one could argue that LTE cell phones are in essence what VOIP > will be when it grows up. TTBOMK, that isn't *quite* true, yet, Owen. The

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Joe Greco" > With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and > status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably > the ability to handle multiple calls intelligently, no hook race > conditions, etc. > > When you throw t

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
So then let's argue that ILEC-delivered POTS is digital too, because it went on fiber to the local SLC hut... It is, at least in some cases, and its even VOIP in a few (Occam BLC's for example). Having said that its almost never derived voice of any type into the home because of life line req

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> >From: Joe Greco =0A>I have no idea why anyone would be = > paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone=0A>line, unless you like giving them y= > our money or something.=0A=0AIn my neck of the woods (Washington DC), the P= > OTS line is the one that works =0Aduring a=A0bad=A0power outage, and has qu= >

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> On 2/28/2011 5:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone > >>> People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a > >>> VoIP device into the back of their router. > > Twenty bucks says the first poster is correct; I'm willing to bet that

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread David Barak
>From: Joe Greco >I have no idea why anyone would be paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone >line, unless you like giving them your money or something. In my neck of the woods (Washington DC), the POTS line is the one that works during a bad power outage, and has qualitatively different failure mo

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Leigh Porter wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: > >>> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: > VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people > on

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Cutler James R wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: > >> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >>> >>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >>> this list, not my mother. >>> >>> -- >>> Leigh >>> >>>

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
On 2/28/2011 5:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a VoIP device into the back of their router. Twenty bucks says the first poster is correct; I'm willing to bet that most of the Comcast

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
It's only an issue if you have a single gateway which is serving up multiple public addresses. SIP is not the only traversal that breaks in this environment, but, it does choose to break in some of the most interesting (especially to troubleshoot when you don't know that's what is causing the p

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> They are in the US. > > Comcast tallies 8.6 million household telephone service accounts, making > it the United States' third-largest telephone provider. As of February > 16, 2011 Comcast has 8.610 million voice customers. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone > > People ar

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> --==_Exmh_1298918263_6182P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: > > On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: > > > VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on > > > this list, not my mother. > > > B

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Cutler James R
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: > On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >> >> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >> this list, not my mother. >> >> -- >> Leigh >> >> > Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't b

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jared Mauch
Any idea how to workaround the uverse broken alg? I've had to do some fun hacks to work around it. Sometimes I can reboot or crash them with the cisco notify for config check. Jared Mauch On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Bret Palsson wrote: > Ahhh yes... ALG... Turn it off. > > -Bret > > On Fe

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jared Mauch
I've found that sip alg on devices is badly broken and must be disabled. This is true of ios and various consumer electronics devices. Nat traversal for multiple devices is not an issue in any case I have seen. Turning off "smart nat" usually solves it. Jared Mauch On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:34 P

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Ahhh yes... ALG... Turn it off. -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > Any chance the NAT device has some god-forsaken ALG agent installed that's > trying to proxy the SIP traffic?

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
n ALG agent installed that's trying to proxy the SIP traffic? (Yes, I hate ALGs. They are evil.) Nathan > -Original Message- > From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:26 AM > To: Bret Palsson > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subjec

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Sorry I didn't include this in the last email... We have large clients who have phones registered on multiples of public IPs from the same location. Works no problem. We do some trickery on our side to make that happen, but I thought all VoIP companies would do that. -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
We haven't run into that issue and have very large clients. I'm interested to find out where you may have run into that issue? -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Another vexation for VOIP in the SMB environment is that it rarely works > particularly > well (if at all) in

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
Another vexation for VOIP in the SMB environment is that it rarely works particularly well (if at all) in light of a multiple-external-address NAT pool. You simply have to map all of your VOIP phones in such a way that they consistently get the same external IP every time or shit breaks badly.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 19:03, Jameel Akari wrote: > Sounds very different indeed. In the US, it's basically "your local Ma Bell > derivative, or something not-POTs." Anecodtally, as of this morning we just > dropped one of our POTS lines for the cable company's alternative. Cost > dropped from $

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Since our company is a VoIP company, I will chime in to this topic. Let's start off with the definitions so everyone is on the same page: vex |veks| verb [ trans. ] make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, esp. with trivial matters : the memory of the conversation still vexed him | [

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jameel Akari
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Leigh Porter wrote: On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
They are in the US. Comcast tallies 8.6 million household telephone service accounts, making it the United States' third-largest telephone provider. As of February 16, 2011 Comcast has 8.610 million voice customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not, en-masse

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: >> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >>> this list, not my mother. > >> Baloney...if that was the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:29, Bret Clark wrote: > On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >> >> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >> this list, not my mother. >> >> -- >> Leigh >> >> > Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be w

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
On 2/28/2011 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about POT's lines decr

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: > On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: > > VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on > > this list, not my mother. > Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be > whining about POT's l

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Clark
On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
; > Juergen. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us] >> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:33 PM >> To: NANOG list >> Subject: RE: What vexes VoIP users? >> >> Some provider woes: >> &

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread nanog
years ago). Juergen. > -Original Message- > From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:33 PM > To: NANOG list > Subject: RE: What vexes VoIP users? > > Some provider woes: > > FAX over VOIP is a PITA.

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Some provider woes: FAX over VOIP is a PITA. I've not yet seen an ATA or softswitch that handled it reliably. E911 for mobile devices sucks. Regulations, and the E911 system, do not seem to have the flexibility for handling this in a seamless way. Call routing (on a more global scale) sucks.

OT: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
OT, but NANOG is almost always good for quick clue ... For those who have residential VoIP, what provider {features | bugs} are most vexing? For those who provision residential VoIP, what subscriber {expectations | behaviors} are most vexing? Thanks in advance, Eric