[Asterisk-Users] RE: Terrible inbound call quality vs. outbound

[Robert Goodyear]

Yeah, I figured it'd be pretty pointless from the point I lose control 
to my ISP, but I figured I'd give 'er a shot anyhow.

It really is perplexing me why the inbound calls would be only 
asymmetrically horrible.

/rg

On Feb 1, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Gene Willingham wrote:

>
> Unfortunately no matter how much Qos tagging you do it will not help 
> the
> inbound side of your call.  Qos is a two way street.  Everyone in the 
> path
> has to support it.  If even one router in the path does not support it 
> you
> can get very poor results.
>
> Wouldn't it be funny if Voicepulse was not doing Qos tagging with QOs 
> on
> their routers?  The drops in the incoming calls could be they are not
> prioritizing voice traffic.  The outbound leg is fine because you are.
>
> Also, as mentioned before, the quality issues I am experiencing only 
> occur
> on some DIDs.  Specifically 703 numbers are the worst.  Last week 
> during the
> 4 hour outage, 703 (reston Virginia) numbers would not work but 240
> (Bethesda Md, across the river) did.  Go figure.
>
> Try www.txlink.net.  They may have a DID in your area.  They have a 
> fairly
> large calling area.  They have a different pricing model then 
> Voicepulse,
> but that may work in your favor.
>
> Gene
>
>
> Original Message:
> -------------------------------
>
> Yeah, I've been beating my head against the wall thinking it was
> something with my config, but alas, it seems to be a case of me needing
> to RTFF (Read The Effing Forum) and ask the community about their
> experiences.
>
> Sadly, VP seems to have a fairly high comparative "rating" against
> other VOIP service while they seem to maintain horrible customer
> support and crappy line quality. Sigh.
>
> I wonder why the TX side of the conversation is clear though? Seems
> like the packets would be treated identically since it's a full-duplex
> conversation.
>
> /rg
>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Brian Dingman wrote:
>
>> I have also had issues with VP Connect ONLY on incoming calls also. It
>> doesn't happen all the time and has cleared up in recent weeks. But
>> when it happens, it would sound like I was listening to the caller
>> through a blown speaker.
>>
>> Have you reported this problem to them?
>>
>> Some things to try would be to turn off the jitterbuffer and disable
>> trunking.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:12:45 -0800, Robert Goodyear <me at jrob.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> Oh I've tried all manner of packet shaping and QoS tagging... it's
>>> certainly not an issue with the ISP.
>>>
>>> I think Gene Willingham may have the right answer, that VoicePulse
>>> cannot handle the load.
>>>
>>> Anyone else have any thoughts? Maybe I need to find another IAX
>>> service
>>> provider to test a different DID in my area.
>>>
>>> /rg
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