[Asterisk-Users] Canadian Content: Telus and Shaw...

[Kim Lux]

So what stops this from happening a year from now, leaving our VOIP
system high and dry for a decent broadband connection ?

Matt: do you do SIP on broadband with "Telcom"  Has their latency
addition wrecked your connection ?

Thanks.  



On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:03 +1300, Matt Riddell wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
> > That is a good point.  I never thought of doing that. 
> > 
> > They could kill SIP connections by subtly delaying any upload traffic
> > streams, ie introducing latency or jitter.  
> 
> LOL!  As our New Zealand Telecom's Provider/Internet Provider has done. 
>   A little background - in New Zealand we have one company really - 
> Telecom.  They provide the Internet and the telephone services.  A 
> couple of weeks ago they added 30ms of latency to all connections and no 
> one batted an eyelid.
> 
> While playing counterstrike on foreign servers (Australia mainly) I 
> regularly get jitter of 300-400ms (i.e. the game starts at 120ms ping 
> and at times rises above 500ms).
> 
> Here the regulatory power is called the commerce commission.  They were 
> about to release a finding that Telecom (which was originally state 
> owned) had to unbundle their lines.  However, about one or two weeks 
> before the finding was released, they changed their mind.  Much to the 
> detriment of New Zealand internet...
> 
> So, once again, the big boys get to keep their toys, while we can but 
> beg for quality service...
> 
-- 
Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.