Comments on: Neutrality Begins at Home

By: cheap VPS

cheap VPS — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:34:03 +0000

Bob, I’m not sure your theory is correct. If the ATA is plugged into a switch port by itself, it shouldn’t even see the frames emitted by your PC, as the switch is sending those directly to the gateway. The switch should queue and round-robin the frames from both the ATA and the PC into the gateway’s port, at which point the gateway should prioritize them. And so long as you’re content with 100Mbps, those 100Mbps switches should do that job on a 100Mbps fabric just as well as they ever did.cheap VPS

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By: Diedre Stellato

Diedre Stellato — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:53:29 +0000

Ah! This really is amazing! Thanks for countering severalsome misconceptions I had noticed about this as of late.

By: Daniel Lott (Service Computers, LLC.)

Daniel Lott (Service Computers, LLC.) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:07:17 +0000

I’ve noticed the same problem at my office.

There are some differences however, my workstation is by far the fastest on the network (Q6600 w/4GB RAM) — not to mention my ATA is plugged into my workstation (it is a MagicJack device).

I’ve set the router to give these priority, set windows to do the same, even given the MagicJack software realtime priority & locked it to a specific core.

Nevertheless, calls over 20 minutes begin breaking up. Calls over an hour eventually drop the outgoing voice channel. No-one from either cable co or MagicJack has been able to come up with a theory, much less a solution.

By: Keith Page

Keith Page — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:13:34 +0000

I had the same problem and have trying everything you have tried but I eventually settled with connecting my vonage through a switch to the modem and my OpenBSD firewall with traffic shaping to the same switch. B/c we’re on SHAW cable both devices get their own publicly routable address. My fax and Phone quality hasn’t been an issue since. I’m using a WRT54GP2 device bought around 2006. I’ve been operating on this setup just fine for about 4 months.

By: Jon Schewe

Jon Schewe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:10:08 +0000

I’m not sure it’s your PC. I’ve got a 3 year old 64-bit AMD connected to my network at 1Gbps and my Vonage is fine. I’ve also got 3 other computers in the house connected to the same internet connection. The things I changed:
1) Put in a Linksys router and loaded it with dd-wrt
2) Added traffic shaping for all of the VOIP ports and the MAC address of my vonage device
3) And this seems to be important for getting calls to come in correctly. I gave my vonage device a static IP and told my router to forward all packets bound for ports 10000 through 20000 (UDP only) to the vonage device.

It’s been fine since then.

By: Nate Q

Nate Q — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:16:54 +0000

Bob, I could be wrong about your particular usage – but I used Skype from my iPhone a couple days ago. All I had to do was connect to the WiFi and I was able to hold a conversation with a friend of mine in Ukraine. It was a decent connection, and I was impressed that I didn’t have to be connected to the computer or anything besides the wireless. Love your blog.