RTP31P2 -> WRT54G or the other way round?

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 2

I am currently using this setup RTP31P2->WRT54G->Motorolla Cable Modem->Telewest ISP. Sound quality has never been brilliant, even at 90Kb/s; warbling voices, other end hears their own echo + worse thing is a few second delay for voice to reach the other end (both ways!). It becomes notably worse when I've got, e.g., emule running on my desktop. I've tried setting Port 1 QOS to high on WRT for RTP connection but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I rang tech sup & they reckon that voice quality would be much better if move the RTP in front of the WRT. Before I do this (and have to change all the damn settings!) has anyone else done this and noticed a significant improvement? Looking at the forum, I can see posts saying it should work fine the way I have it, e.g. http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic4943.html.

Thanks

Posts: 76 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 76

I'd also recommend you put the RTP in front of the WRT as suggested by Vonage. QOS comes in many flavours and I suspect the QOS on the WRT isn't doing what you might expect. On the other hand, I do have my RTP behind my own QOS / Firewall (using ipcop and a QOS add-on) but it took a lot of setting up and before I got it working I had terrible delays on the phone line...