[asterisk-users] Asterisk and 802.11g

Yuan LIU yliu11 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 8 12:12:49 MST 2007


>From: Jason Fuermann <jbf005 at shsu.edu>
>Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:33:26 -0600
>
>your asterisk box has to do audio conversion, its getting bogged down

Thanks for your reply, Jason.  Two further questions:
1) I thought all networking would be done in the card, not taxing CPU much?
2) I get reasonable quality (and no significant network blockage) when I 
answer call from Console.  In this case, Asterisk also needs to "transcode" 
audio into the sound card, right?  G.711 is supposed to be the least taxing 
CODEC, and I'm pretty sure I'm using G.711 between VoIP extensions (hence no 
transcoding between VoIP and FXO. (disallow => all, allow = ulaw)

Yuan Liu

>Yuan LIU wrote:
>>I'm greatly surprised when testing an Asterisk box with 802.11g.  Here's 
>>the topology:
>>
>>VoIP caller --- 802.11g --- Asterisk --- 802.11g --- VoIP extension
>>                                       |
>>                                     FXO ___ PSTN extension
>>
>>When I call a VoIP extension on that box (from a VoIP extension), voice is 
>>good.  But when this box tries to bridge the call with a PSTN extension, 
>>voice is completely broken.  And it's not because of the cheap X100P - 
>>when I ping the box, round trip is >4,000 ms, most of the time causing 
>>timeout.  Once the call hangs up, ping time dropped to 1-2 ms.  Ping time 
>>started to surge even when FXO is simply ringing.
>>
>>If VoIP to VoIP extension call uses re-invite (which it did), voice is 
>>also good in the Console channel.
>>
>>How can voice traffic stall 802.11g? (I haven't checked, but CODEC is 
>>likely ulaw.)
>>
>>Yuan Liu




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