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Vonage That should have been "only need to be prioritized to guarantee quality on heavily
That should have been "only need to be prioritized to guarantee quality on heavily used networks".
You could overload a network and all the priority in the world won't guarantee a connection, similarly, as is the case for most people, no prioritization is required to have a reliable connection. People doing file sharing and gaming may have need to control the priority of packets leaving their network if they are occasionally saturating their link. That prioritization won't help if the ISP is doing something poorly on their end.
In my case I am using an old Motorola adapter behind an old netgear router with no QoS. My service is as reliable as POTS with the exception of some system wide outages a few months back. While I could run the Motorola between my modem and router to guarantee QoS I moved it inside because of problems with the firmware over a year ago.
Unfortunately the only way to achieve equal reliability to the PSTN would be to create a dedicated network for Voip and size it for the maximum required bandwidth. It would still be cheaper to operate than the PSTN in the long run, but it would not have the cost savings that are obtained by using the Internet. Plus everyone would have to have two connections, one for phone and one for data. This is in fact how some Voip services from the cable companies are now implemented and they cost as much as POTS.
There is a company that has built a private network to connect Voip companies directly. This allows the Voip companies to route calls to each other without having them cross the Internet between them. It does not address the customer's Internet connection however, it is mainly to reduce bandwidth costs.
Read The Full Thread: Discard LinkSys Router - RJ45 to RJ11 Adapter?
• Is it possible to discard the LinkSys Router since I already have a NetGear router
• No, you can not plug an RJ-11 cord connected to a phone into your NETGEAR router
• I don't think the netgear model number is relevant, but I'll tell you what ports
• If you go to http://www.testyourvoip.com and run the test, then post the detailed
• Quality Between You and Boston (Preserve Speech Quality): 4.3
Detailed Results:
• Your test results look good.
Did you have other network traffic going on during
• Nope, nothing else going on. I was taking an order over the phone and no other applications
• The vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of Vonage customers don't have
• > Therefore if you are having intermittent problems the likely cause
>
• Because if you are having issues but most people aren't then the problem exists
scerruti posted "That should have been "only need to be prioritized to guarantee quality on heavily" on 09/03/2005 |
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