nteresting; so it sounds, from what you say, that by default VoIP gets a "good deal" out of the available bandwidth?
On 7 June 2012 09:55, Adrian Kennard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/12 09:45, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > > > > This may be the wrong forum for this message, but I was wondering about > > how VoIP is handled as part of people's various traffic shaping policies > > - i.e. is this something people take account of? > > Our LNSs know the rate of every line, and shape to match the line rate > but with small packets having more priority over large - this works well > for VoIP, but also ACK packets, DNS, interactive (key strokes), etc. We > find people can fill their line with torrents and still have perfect > VoIP calls. > > > Also: if one of the UK's ISP's decided to implement QoS on their > > customer base's users and then prioritise VoIP, what kind of impact > > would this have on the upstream network? > > Upstream is not usually an issue as it is not usually congested!
