[asterisk-users] garbled calls

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Joe acquisto wrote:
> . . .
>> QOS across the internet is pointless and further more doesnt really 
>> exist, I would suggest setting qualify=200 in sip.conf so that asterisk 
>> will not send a call to the remote end if they are more than 200 
>> milliseconds away.
>>
>>
> 
> "Away", in what sense?  Are you referring to packet "latency"?  How does Asterisk measure this?  Ping response?

No, it does NOT measure packet latency.  qualify= measures the response 
time of the remote device to a SIP OPTIONS packet.  If the device is 
busy doing something and does not respond quickly enough the device will 
be considered unreachable.