Matt, I too have Vonage. My wife and I decided to go with their $15/month for 500 minutes plan because we calculated that (assuming US calls) at 3 cents/minute over that, we'd need to be using the phone around 850 minutes/month to justify the extra $10 for an unlimited plan ($10 / 0.03 = 333.33 minutes over the included 500 minutes). Since we don't see ourselves ever coming close to that, we opted for the lower plan.
Our setup is this: cable modem <-> wrt54gs <-| (voip adapter & rest of network) I run the latest free Sveasoft firmware (alchemy, I think) on the wrt54gs and do have QoS enabled. I had bittorrent set to bulk status and didn't have any problems with the calls, but bittorrent basically didn't work at all. So, I changed it to "standard" priority (SIP and the ATA's switch port are both set to "premium, iirc) and now bittorrent works. I did a bit of testing while downloading a large bittorrent file and the person on the other end was able to hear some chopiness before I limited the bittorrent upload speed to 12 Kbps (Azureus rocks for this, btw). With that simple modification both bittorent and the call I was on worked great. Other than that, I've never had any other problems with it. It seems to me that the problem happened when I saturated my upload bandwidth. There's plenty of download bandwidth on my cable modem so I can download anything from a web or ftp site without having it mess up a phone call, but when doing bittorrent and voip, both of which use the upstream bandwidth a lot more than simple web surfing is when I had problems. So, based on that, I wouldn't recommend running a heavily used server if you use Vonage at home, but the majority of people probably won't fall into that category. Cheers, Tanner On 10/6/05, Matt Pusateri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Triluggers, > > I trying to decide on Vonage versus Time Warner Cable's phone service. > I have had mixed reviews on both. Anyone care to share the > experiences. From a price perspective Vonage seems more desirable, > but I don't want to end up in one of those - You get what you pay for > scenarios. > > Also those that are successful in having good quality voip service do > you have the voip ATA box ahead of you local network or behind. If > behind are you doing and QOS. My setup will most likely involve a > WRTG54. > > Thanks, > > Matt P. > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
