[asterisk-users] Best inexpensive home office router for VoIP (QoS with maybe PoE)

[simon elliston ball]

We've had a lot of success with Thompson Speedtouch 780 routers,  
which have built in adsl modems, and two ATAs. They don't seem to use  
QoS in the strictest sense, but do a very good job of prioritising  
the traffic from their own ATAs.  If you're happy to stick with  
analogue hansets instead of the SIP hardphones, they provide an  
excellent protection to upload bandwidth. They also seem to do some  
early dropping on incoming traffic to persuade the ISP's routers to  
slow down downloads once a call has been going for a bit, hence they  
can limit downloads as well.

simon

On 4 Jan 2007, at 17:56, Mike wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for opinions on the "best value" router to use for home  
> offices.  It should work for a scenario in which there are 3  
> computers and 2 SIP phones, handling QoS so that the phones always  
> have higher priority traffic than the PCs. (and not rely on the  
> phones to do the QoS because some PCs may not be connected to the  
> phones).
>
> QoS could be based on destination and source IP (i.e. an Asterisk  
> server) or MAC address of the phones. Ideally with PoE, but at this  
> point it's just a bonus.
>
> What are people on this list using?  I've found that the mention  
> QoS on a box doesn't guarantee any real QoS functionality.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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