[kwlug-disc] [OT] Diagnosing voip and Tomato

[Raul Suarez]

The only time I find a small degradation is when I am on the phone with my dad, 
doing desktop sharing while someone else is watching a movie and other people 
are doing the normal you tube and browsing. (At my home there are always several 
devices accessing the Internet). 


Just regular browsing and YouTube do not give me any noticeable degradation. 
E.g. I regularly have conference calls from home where I VPN to the office, and 
remote to my office computer (RDP), with no noticeable degradation in the call.

Movies seem to be the main offenders (1.5 GB/hour) 

I don't mind that small degradation at home talking to my dad while someone 
watches a movie, I thing I would if it was a business call.
Raul Suarez


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From: Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com>
To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 10:21:52 PM
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] [OT] Diagnosing voip and Tomato

Here's where I'm puzzled.  Seems like plenty of people using Voip on the list.  
Am I the only one experiencing this problem repeatedly?  Or does everyone else's 
calls degrade as soon as the kids get home from school?



On 24/02/11 09:03 PM, L.D. Paniak wrote: 
For bandwidth management on routers that seems to work, try the Gargoyle 
distribution:  http://www.gargoyle-router.com/  It is OpenWRT-based and runs on 
the Linksys-class hardware.  You can throttle users by usage or IP.  It tires to 
do QOS as well, but I have not tried it myself.    On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 20:31 
-0500, John Johnson wrote:   

>I will venture an opinion about the nature of the traffic. Most (if not  all) 
>residential services, and perhaps SOHO services, whether cable or  DSL are 
>asymmetrical meaning the download throughput is higher, much  higher, than that 
>upload/upstream traffic. VoIP, on the, other hand  requires a symmetrical 
>service for its slice of the throughput pie. The  downstream YouTube video 
>traffic is competing in the downstream 'pipe'  for its slice of the pie with the 
>VoIP traffic. Or vice versa.  A month or two ago, I think John Van O, or perhaps 
>someone else  described how a greedy bandwidth consumer, like maybe YouTube, 
>will grab  the whole through pie leaving very little bandwidth for other 
>consumers.  I don't know what to suggest except to ask who is experiencing the  
>'choppy' voice traffic. It seems from the YouTube 'solution' that the  problem 
>in the downstream side. IMHO The problem is in the 'pipe' and not your 
>equipment.  I do not know if there are different grades of service available to 
>SOHO  and residential users.  JohnJ  On 2011-02-24 19:52, Insurance Squared Inc. 
>wrote:     
>
>>Sorry for the mildly off topic but there's so many voip experts here.  I'm 
>>trying to increase my call quality.  Whenever I'm on a business  call and it 
>>gets choppy, my current solution is to holler 'GET OFF  YOUTUBE' to the kids.  
>>It's a cheap and reliable solution but I'm  looking for a less intrusive 
>>alternative.  I've just changed voip  server hardware, but that's not resolved 
>>it, still gets choppy if  downloading something.  What's the next step?  I've 
>>got a QOS router but the internet says it  only fixes upstream traffic, not 
>>downstream.  Seems odd to me, but  sure.  If I went with the old standby linksys 
>>and installed tomato on  it, would that likely be the reasonable next step in 
>>fixing the choppy  voip?  The only other thing I've got in the mix is a dell 
>>switch that  connects all my various ethernet ports, but it's all 10/100 and  
>>commercial quality, so I can't see how that would be the problem.   
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