Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Gordon Henderson
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1 On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kevin Keane wrote: What really matters is the latency, and T-1 is a huge improvement over DSL in that area. The easiest way to measure latency is the ping time to a server that is ?close to you? Internet-wise. A DSL has

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:32 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: In terms of telephony, a T-1 can make a huge difference over DSL. DSL gives you a lot of raw bandwidth, true, but for voice that really doesn’t matter all that much. Voice calls only take a relatively small amount of bandwidth anyway; you

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Hans Witvliet Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 11:52 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Joel Maslak
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.comwrote: My numbers are from an ATT DSL line in California, suburban San Diego county, and just around the corner from the central office. So it is not the distance (with DSL, the distance does make quite a difference). On the

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:32 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Latency also is the reason VoIP does not work at all over satellite connections even though they tend to have plenty of bandwidth. Please define does not work at all over satellite ??? Sure, it is not studio HIFI quality, but is th

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Joel Maslak
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Hans Witvliet h...@a-domani.nl wrote: No these are also geo-stationary (same altitude, so same delay), commercial and military satelites, Yes, exactly. Geostationary satellites have been used for telephone for ages (and are still used for remote areas - they

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Hans Witvliet Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:13 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1 On Mon, 2010-09

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Underwood
On 09/14/2010 04:23 AM, Joel Maslak wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Hans Witvliet h...@a-domani.nl mailto:h...@a-domani.nl wrote: No these are also geo-stationary (same altitude, so same delay), commercial and military satelites, Yes, exactly. Geostationary satellites

[asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Richard Stuppi
I work in a small office and have fallen into the role of network support based on knowing enough about networking to be dangerous. Our office is moving from DSL to a T1. Were using Asterisk as our PBX and I'm looking for hints or resources that might help me make the transition as error free

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Richard Stuppi rich...@stuppi.com wrote: I work in a small office and have fallen into the role of network support based on knowing enough about networking to be dangerous. Our office is moving from DSL to a T1. Were using Asterisk as our PBX and I'm

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread jon pounder
On 09/12/2010 02:34 PM, Kyle Kienapfel wrote: Really it depends on what the capabilies of dsl were assuming you are just using both dsl and t1 as internet connections. a dsl that has close to 1mb/sec out and 10mb/sec or so in, is going to be pretty comparable to a t1 actually so not really

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Kevin Keane
-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of jon pounder Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 12:07 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1 On 09/12/2010 02:34 PM, Kyle Kienapfel wrote: Really it depends

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Steve Edwards
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kevin Keane wrote: What really matters is the latency, and T-1 is a huge improvement over DSL in that area. The easiest way to measure latency is the ping time to a server that is “close to you” Internet-wise. A DSL has latencies of between 40ms (if it’s extremely good

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 5:57 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL