[138271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 2 02:54:09 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <32446190.666.1299038518678.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:50:37 -0800
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bret Palsson" <bret@getjive.com>
>
>> 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-party SIP provider, and
> you tell *me* how that works out...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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 get passable call quality (though far from ideal)
calling the US on a US third party provider from my soft-phone on
my laptop from Kigali, Rwanda. I think that's close to a worst case
scenario, frankly.
These days, voice is a very low-bandwidth service. On any decent
link, it seems to get through just fine.
Owen
