On 7 Jun 2012, at 12:30, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > On 7 June 2012 11:10, Matthew Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Jun 2012, at 10:38, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > > > from what you say, that by default VoIP gets a "good deal" out of the > > available bandwidth? > > from what you say, it sounds like you have an axe to grind? > > Not at all;
Cool. I'm possibly a little over-sensitive to intentions and motivations when it comes to bandwidth management discussions. > I was just thinking last night about VoIP and what would be the knock-on > effects if lots of people started using VoIP - say a few million. Well, how many users do you think Skype have? > I was also thinking about whether prioritising this kind of traffic on a > consumer ISP, by default, would be advantageous or even necessary. Advantageous at bottleneck links, if it can be reliably identified. Packet length sounds like a reasonably neutral discriminator to me. > > I have to say though: I don't know much about VoIP or the amount of bandwidth > it requires, so I thought here would be a good place to ask. > > As far as axes go, the only one I have to grind is the one in my shed. Heh. I've got one of those too :) Mat
