By way I tried that URL you gave me but my browsers keep on coming
up saying that there is a missing plugin, but can not figure out what it is.


On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:

> MIke
> Thank you for the observations. I did test the connection, since I am using
> cellular, I found several phone numbers to test against, and all of them
> provide
> good inbound audio but my outbound audio is just all corrupted.
>
> I do not think that the DHCP assignment caused the problem, but I am trying
> to figure out if something else was changed on the network at the same
> time.
> i.e. different routing.
>
> I know that normally ip addresses are not geo based, but it was always of
> note
> that in the past any search or application that took me to a map would
> always
> take me to a map of the area I live in, now since I am one HughesNet, I see
> that I am now taken to sites that are no where near where I am, and I
> figured
> that it was probably where the gateway to the uplink to the satellites was
> located. I know that they have several of them, so I thought that might be
> the issue.
>
> I need to get on a wired internet connection and put the uCell on it and
> make
> sure I do not have something going on with the outbound side of the device.
> Inbound audio is so good, and it was working so well prior to the failure
> that
> I am left wondering.
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > ------------------------------
>> >
>> > Message: 8
>> > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:05:21 -0800
>> > From: Chuck Hast <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: [PLUG] O.T.VoIP and Satellite
>> > To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]>
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>> >
>> > Folks,
>> > This is a issue that I have been trying to figure out, and I have been
>> > talking to the two parties involved.
>> >
>> > I am a HughesNet user (that is all we have out in the woods here)
>> > I have been using a AT&T microcell on the satellite link since July.
>> >
>> > When I moved here I was told that the microcell would probably not
>> > work, or at best with a lot of latency, well it did quite well, I always
>> > told people at the start of a call that I was on a satellite link and
>> that
>> > there would be some delay, no issues.
>> >
>> > Then on the 15th of Dec the outbound audio went to trash. I can
>> > hear anything on the far end just fine, voice quality is good nothing
>> > missing. But the outbound sounds totally distorted if there is any-
>> > thing at all.
>> >
>> > AT&T has been working with me on it, so far they do not see any-
>> > thing wrong with the microcell, HughesNet totally washes their
>> > hands, the thing that I have observed is that this whole thing took
>> > a dump after there was a DHCP assignment change ( Hughesnet
>> > seems to change them all the time) the other thing that I had noticed
>> > was that prior to that change, applications that tried to map your IP
>> > address to your location usualy showed me as being somewhere
>> > near Kansas City. Now they think I am near Chicago.
>> >
>> > Does anyone on the list have any experience with this sort of thing.
>> > I am going to see if I can get a hub on between the microcell and
>> > the rest of the network and try to sniff where it is talking to, then
>> see
>> > if I do a traceroute to see what manner of delays I see on the link.
>> >
>> > In my miserable experience with VoIP, if there was a issue it always
>> > seemed like it showed up on both paths, but in this case it is only the
>> > outbound, so I am assuming that something is causing a delay there
>> > somewhere.
>> >
>> > The microcell comes on line and appears to be happy, but no joy
>> > with the outbound audio.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Hey Chuck - I'd start by going to this website and testing you VOIP
>> connection and hopefully get some useful data.
>> http://www.voipqualitytest.com/
>>
>> With many years of Network Engineering work experience, I'd say it's
>> highly
>> unlikely this problem is caused by a DHCP assignment change. Especially if
>> the only change in your internet connection is outbound voip call quality.
>>
>> I also wouldn't put too much into geo-ip mapping either. ISPs are assigned
>> blocks of ip addresses from IANA and those assignments are not
>> geographically based. Geo-ip location takes extra logic, such as Google's
>> My Location service which requires a browser that supports W3C's
>> Geolcation
>> API. Google also makes use of it by getting your web browser to provide
>> information an wifi access points nearby.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mike
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