[Asterisk-Users] outbound IAX calls bog down DSL

[shido]

You may want to look into prioritizing voice packets over "data" packets.
Until you turn on some kind of traffic shaping dont "burn up your bandwidth"
while making calls. This means limit your kazaa and other kinds of peer to
peer or wares hoarding. What are the specs on the box you are running
Asterisk on? Run a traceroute and find out what path your packets are taking
to get to us.

If anyone is having issues with NuFone please direct them offlist to
support at nufone.net.

Greg Merriweather
The NuFone Network
G.Merriweather at nufone.net
519-251-8225 x 3000
IM: shido6 at msn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <d.redmore at att.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] outbound IAX calls bog down DSL


> Evening,
>
> I've got * asterisk up and running with nufone account for inbound and
> outbound calls from the world...  everything works quite nicely except
that I
> noticed last night that when I have a call active from * to nufone, web
> surfing on the network slows to a crawl...  additionally, I have a VPN
tunnel
> to another office (using CIPE) and while inter-office (i.e. - SIP to SIP)
> calls are fine, I cannot call from the remote office to the outside world
> (SIP -> CIPE tunnel -> * -> IAX2 -> nufone) - the call goes through, but
it
> breaks up and is not inteligible...  now, I realize that there is a LOT of
> overhead in this arrangement but both offices have pretty fast connections
> (cable modem and 1.5meg SDSL) and it seems like there should be enough
> bandwidth to handle one GSM (and iLBC on the IAX leg) encoded call...  It
> just seems like the calls out to nufone are sucking up WAY more bandwidth
> than they should...  sorry for the long post...  any thougts would be
greatly
> appreciated.
>
> dave redmore
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