I've tried other VoIP services and protocols and none worked as good on our poor quality connection.
Is there one you'd recommend that works well on low bandwidth connections? We have a 1Mbps down/256kbps up satellite connection. Our big problem is the uplink bandwidth never approaches 256k. Also our connection is high contention in satellite internet lingo (highly oversold). That translates into a lot of jitter as sometimes we have to wait our turn to get a piece of the bandwidth. Greg On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > Use a real VoIP or video program and not Skype. :-) > > Skype is absolutely terrible, it's just a P2P system that moves live > content. > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > On 9/14/2011 2:28 PM, Greg Ihnen wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I've gotten so much out of these forums. I appreciate you letting me be >> a part of them. I had an idea which I don't know if it would be of interest >> to anyone here but I hope it is. It has to do with bandwidth management and >> P2P and Skype and their interaction in MT's RouterOS. >> >> I've noticed some P2P traffic gets picked up by the L7 regex for Skype. >> Since anyone doing bandwidth management for both Skype and P2P is probably >> trying to prioritize Skype and de-prioritize P2P and MT's confusing the two >> is going to have negative consequences. Having the P2P traffic get into >> Skype's queue does the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. >> >> You'll see when MT's L7 Skype regex is misidentifying P2P traffic as >> Skype traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic will be greatly >> unbalanced, much more so than even if one side was doing voice and video and >> the other side was just doing voice. I was seeing hundreds of Kbps down and >> one or two Kbps up on the Skype queues. I knew that wasn't right. I looked >> and sure enough there was bit torrent activity going on. I wonder if some of >> these bit torrent clients don't try to make their traffic appear to be >> traffic of legit apps. >> >> I'm using a modified version of Butch's script. What I'm doing with >> regard to Skype and P2P to correct this problem is the part of the script >> that detects P2P traffic keeps a list of the local users's IPs. I have the >> part of the script that prioritizes Skype ignore the user's traffic if >> they're one of the P2P'ers. That means not only does their P2P work poorly >> but their Skyping is not going to be as good as it would if they weren't >> messing around with P2P. I'm very heavily trying to discourage P2P here. >> >> Greg >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
