[asterisk-biz] Is ISP Blocking VoIP

[Tony Nichols]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:45 -0800, Rusty Shackleford wrote:
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>         Can anyone name a couple of reasonably priced or freeware
>         tools that could help me measure the performance between two
>         VoIP endpoints?
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>         As far as ISPs introducing jitter to VoIP calls, can't this be
>         solved by passing VoIP over a VPN? 
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> Technically, yes,  but in the many cases, (most, IMHO), such an
> approach is completely impractical.  The processing overhead added by
> the VPN is not inconsequential. Move importantly, deploying VPN's for
> every endpoint connecting to an ITSP or IPPBX could be ruinous. 

I have been using the 3com office connect <very cheap> for vpn'ing to
our other offices. I needed terminal server access anyway... but I have
had no issues pushing sip down the pipe (one office has a 512kb cable
modem) and still using terminal services at the same time.
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