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[Ilija Milicevic]

By the way, the way I dealt with the OpenWRT QoS issue was by throttling
transmission down to 900/90. Fast enough and everything worked.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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