[Asterisk-Users] VoIP experiences with Cable and DSL

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

cshaw59 at comcast.net (Chris) writes:
> The thing that really kills you on the ISP end is RED... it may be great for
> large traffic but it just KILLS voip... and there's not thing 1 you the
> customer can do about it...  :(

Interesting and somewhat disheartening.  RED was really meant to put
back-pressure on the protocols that understand a delicate touch, such
as modern TCP.  Trying to push back on UDP seems a bit pointless.  I
wonder if collective cry of the voip users can get the RED
implementors to avoid whacking UDP packets until things get really
dire (say when drop rates go past some magic number like 5% or 10%).

-wolfgang
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