[Asterisk-Users] Linksys WRT54GP2-NA settings forperformanceandlowbandwidth?

[Greg Oliver]

You may also want to do some packet captures when you experience the
problem for both the Linksys and the Vonage ATA to see what they do
differently..

-Greg


On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:59 +0200, Marcel van Kaam, Fonetica wrote:
> I have my systems running on ulaw, alaw or GSM. No other codecs. Myself I
> even prefer the ulaw because of the quality.
> 
> I will look tomorrow a little bit further in the Linksys as I have 2 of them
> here to test and so far I am very happy with them. 
> I will play a bit around with the settings and let you know tomorrow or I
> founded some things to improve. 
> 
> Marcel 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul Fielding
> Sent: woensdag 29 juni 2005 16:45
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys WRT54GP2-NA settings
> forperformanceandlowbandwidth?
> 
> I have indeed already done so - I use G729 quite a bit since I travel alot 
> in adverse conditions.  Interesting thing is, I can get less choppy audio 
> sometimes from my Vonage device using (what I suspect to be) Ulaw, while 
> either ulaw or G729 will still give choppy response at that moment from my 
> Linksys....
> 
> Paul
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marcel van Kaam, Fonetica" <marcel at fonetica.be>
> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" 
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:28 AM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys WRT54GP2-NA settings 
> forperformanceandlow bandwidth?
> 
> 
> > You can set, in the linksys, the codec G729 for your line. In the Linksys
> > also set only to use that codec. This can be done at the admin page of the
> > line you use in the linksys. Also do that in the asterisk for your device.
> > First buy the license from Digium.
> >
> > Then you will use less bandwidth and have a better sound upstream.
> >
> > Marcel
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul 
> > Fielding
> > Sent: woensdag 29 juni 2005 1:24
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys WRT54GP2-NA settings for
> > performanceandlow bandwidth?
> >
> > Hmm... Except that if I bring my Vonage ATA for my Vonage line with me to
> > the same hotel, I can get reliable connectivity.   Assuming the hotel 
> > isn't
> > helping me on the QOS front, and the Hotel's connectivity is the last 
> > word,
> > then my Vonage ATA should be choppy, as well, no?  This is what leads me 
> > to
> > think I can do some tweaking....
> >
> > later,
> >
> > Paul
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Greg Oliver" <goliver at cistera.com>
> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> > <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys WRT54GP2-NA settings for
> > performanceand low bandwidth?
> >
> >
> >> Nothing you can do on this one..  Without the provider accepting your
> >> QoS settings, you are at their mercy.  And yes, you are correct, most
> >> multi-tenant dwellings use xDSL for their connectivity due to it's
> >> price, and the upstream is usually less bandwidth than the downstream..
> >>
> >> -Greg
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:00 -0600, Paul Fielding wrote:
> >>> So I'm using a WRT54GP2-NA when I travel, as I travel alot, to give me
> >>> a phone at my hotel rooms, etc.   During the day or late at night the
> >>> thing works great - best ATA I've ever used.
> >>>
> >>> However, in the mid-evening (when many business travellers are at the
> >>> hotel room doing work), the outgoing audio channel gets so choppy that
> >>> the person on the other end can't make me out clearly.
> >>> Interestingly, I can usually hear them just fine - I attribute that to
> >>> larger incoming bandwidth than outgoing on the hotel's part.
> >>>
> >>> This device has a *lot* of settings that one can tweak.   Anyone have
> >>> any suggestions on tuning this thing (or tuning Asterisk or both) to
> >>> improve the SIP performance of the audio from the Linksys to the
> >>> server to try to reduce choppiness?   I note that Vonage, who also
> >>> uses these devices, seems to have got it down - it doesn't seem to
> >>> matter where I use my Vonage Linksys device, I can get pretty
> >>> reasonable performance.   So I figure I should be able to do similar
> >>> tweaks to mine... *shrug*
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>>
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