Status via SNMP?

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: May 19, 2003 Posts: 4

I am very please with my Vonage service, but my wife seems to think that the quality is poor.

Then, it hit me: Most of the time my wife is on the phone, I'm at work, usually with a pptp tunnel into my home, and just generally sucking up bandwidth.

Has anyone played around with SNMP or some other way to get the status of the ATA? I'm thinking of incorporating that with my home automation stuff so that I can know when I should conserve bandwidth for my wife's sake.

Thanks,

Brad

Posts: 27 · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject:

I don't think that Vonage gives you access to the ATA box. What border router do you have? You could look at SNMP there, if it supports it.

If your wife is having sound quality issues, that means it's a downstream issue and there's not much you can do about it -- except not using your internet connection. Applying QoS won't do you any good because the choke-point is at the next router up most likely.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: May 19, 2003 Posts: 4

Nasty wrote:

I don't think that Vonage gives you access to the ATA box. What border router do you have? You could look at SNMP there, if it supports it.

If your wife is having sound quality issues, that means it's a downstream issue and there's not much you can do about it -- except not using your internet connection. Applying QoS won't do you any good because the choke-point is at the next router up most likely.

I've got a Linksys BEFSR81.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 2

You can do what you're asking with the solution I just posted, although the real solution is to set up some QoS/traffic shaping.