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[Ilija Milicevic]

We're more than happy with the voip.ms service. With that being said, we
have a very good connection (by Canadian a.k.a. medieval standards) of
15Mbps/1Mbps, through Teksavvy cable and I made sure I configured my QoS
scripts (running on FW5 a.k.a. OpenWRT/MLPPP) properly. It was easier to set
up QoS on a router running Tomato, but it's doable on OpenWRT, especially
since I even posted a config example
http://forum.fw5.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67
Here's the rub... I was still experiencing VoIP issues with OpenWRT's QoS
scripts when doing heavy-duty torrenting. That didn't happen with Tomato.
For that reason, I'd recommend getting a router like ASUS RT-N16 and
flashing it with Tomato-USB. It has a half-decent CPU (533MHz) and a
F***LOAD of RAM (128MB!!!!), and Tomato-USB supports it. No MLPPP though
(even though the Tomato/MLPPP guys wanna start using Tomato-USB as a base
for their code, but who knows when that'll happen). You won't need to get a
dedicated line as Tomato's QoS package is very robust.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Eric <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> pure technicality, you could run voip on 30k uploads, if the traffic
> is prioritized for it
> the catch is that the second you hit latency on that kind of
> connection, call quality will go down the pipes until the latency goes
> away
> different types of compression may help compensate, but personal
> experience says the bar is right around there
>
> it is possible to run voip connection off satellite/RF connections,
> but in that case, the provider has to put thought into it -
> storms/latency can be bigger issues than normal there
>
> (i used to work for a company that does exactly that)
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:54:53PM -0500, Ilija Milicevic wrote:
> >> I got VoIP set up through voip.ms (Canadian provider). Costs about 1c
> per
> >> minute anywhere in North America. I use it on a regular basis and have
> used
> >> it in Europe and South America (with Linphone).
> >> We are probably just gonna port our pots number over to that service and
> not
> >> bother with POTS when we move.
> >> Just make sure you go through Canadian servers (as voip.ms also has
> some US
> >> and [even worse] UK servers) unless you don't mind the DHS or the MI5
> >> routinely snooping your calls. You can be pretty sure Google's US
> servers
> >> get all of their traffic forwarded to the DHS.
> >
> > Are you happy with the service they provide?  I've been kicking around
> > the idea of setting up an asterisk box with unlimitel (or now maybe
> > voip.ms).
> >
> > Is anybody currently running their primary home phone over voip? What
> > kind of QoS do you need to do to ensure a certain level of quality? I've
> > got our office on a (vendor set-up) voip solution, so I'm somewhat
> > familiar with it, but it has a dedicated connection, so I've never had
> > to worry about a congested connection (torrents, etc).
> >
> > Realistically, I could probably get an entire second DSL connection,
> > join them with MLPPP and still pay less than I am currently (I suppose
> > it depends what my dry-loop charge would be). It's just a case of I
> > don't know where to start since I haven't done it before.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Irwin
> > e:  chris at chrisirwin.ca
> > w: http://chrisirwin.ca
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