You might want to try g729/g723, but as Dave pointed out bandwidth might not be your main concern. If you get more than 300ms latency in any direction I would look for another solution. In order to test the most critical point of failure, you need to set up something at your cottage that would respond to ping, and ping it from home. If you get stable ping reply below 300ms you should be fine. You can also do a traceroute in both directions to find out where the weak link is.
If that fails you can try a good QOS router to prioritize upload traffic. There's a whole bunch of Open-Source ones out there, unless you go with a hardware-based one. Smoothwall (http://smoothwall.org/) is one of them. This is a good solution for anyone with low upload speed btw. Chances are you might need to use gsm or ilbc, as most free soft-phones doesn't come with g729/g723. Some providers might not support gsm or ilbc though... -- Bjorn -----Original Message----- From: Henry Coleman [VoIP-PBX.ca] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:00 PM To: TAUG - Tech Subject: [on-asterisk] Satillite and SIP Hi all, I am attempting to set up a SIP phone service to my cottage near Bancroft this involves using a friends satellite internet connection and some kind of wireless bridge. We've just tried a SIP x-lite softphone which he installed on his PC. The results are mixed. He can hear me fine (presumably because his download speed is fast enough) but his voice is broken up, every two or three words get cut out making it very difficult to understand. Does any one out there know if we can use a narrow band codec or make some adjustments to SIP to handle this problem. This is the only viable solution as the cottage is 6 km from the nearest phone line and is not within range of any cell tower (even with a 3 watt analogue phone and yaggi antenna). Hope someone can help. Henry -- Henry L.Coleman [ VoIP-PBX ] Tel.1 866 415-5355 Ext.301 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
