[MLB-WIRELESS] You all seen this site?....

[Morphonius Maxor]

http://www.mervin.net.au/wireless/template/index.php

As a newbie this site is really helpful...
What do some of the techies of the list think of his wireless link 
kit...Thumbs up or thumbs down?



Ratbaggy wrote:
> Hi Rohan,
>
> I have a similar setup to you and don't have too many problems with 
> VOIP at all.
>
> Sipura SPA3102 on Pennytel
> G711A codec used
> 6 Households with 11+ computers and 1 web/mail server
> ADSL1 8 Megs down 384 K up
> 3 hops of wireless and 25 Km between me and the DSL
> Shared with melbourne wireless traffic on some of the links
> We limit bandwidth to 90% of max in each direction
>
> The difference....
>
> We have a linux router running Centos 4 and use HTB to control 
> bandwidth and do exactly what you are considering, allocating minimum 
> bandwidth on a per IP address basis.  We use a shell script to set the 
> whole thing up.  You can get it from 
> here http://www.metamorpher.de/fairnat/ .  It may not be exactly what 
> you want but you may well get some ideas.
>
> Ratbaggy.
>
> Rohan Malhotra wrote:
>>
>> hello everybody,
>>
>> i've decided to give my voip QoS another shot; atm its currently 
>> working*, though its far from perfect and i think there's potential 
>> of getting it much better.
>>
>> currently im using an alcatel 510 (alcatel-home firmware upgraded, 
>> with sip port opened) connected to an asus wl-500gp with tomato v1.17 
>> firmware and shared with 7 people, both wired and non-wired.
>> i also have attached a wired sipura 3102 ATA.
>>
>> im with tpg adsl2 internet and i sync at 7mbps-down/.9mbps-up. i've 
>> capped my speeds to 5.6mbps-down/724kbps-up respectively (or 80% of 
>> each).
>> i use pennytel as my vsp.
>>
>> i make calls through my wired connection to the router and also 
>> through my ata. on my ata i use the g729 codec and on my pc i use g711.
>>
>> atm i'm using l7, port classification and mac prioritisation (for the 
>> ata) in my QoS setup. please see 
>> www.geocities.com/cyanid...es/tomatoqos.jpg 
>> <http://www.geocities.com/cyanidespillromania/images/tomatoqos.jpg> 
>> for details
>>
>> in terms of the problem itself, i think its probably packet loss- as 
>> the other end seems to complain of 'drop-outs' or that they can't 
>> hear me sometimes. echo is a peripheral issue but still worthy of 
>> mention, as some people don't like it.
>>
>> what irritates me most is that, though i seldom max-out (particularly 
>> when i call out- i monitor it!) my connection, my voip calls still 
>> seem to get disturbed by other traffic on the router, even when the 
>> router has no other concurrent traffic (which voids the idea that 
>> greater bandwidth alleviates quality issues).
>>
>> seeing as i have a bandwidth surplus, is it possible to permanently 
>> allocate bandwidth to voip services- have bandwidth exclusively set 
>> aside and untouchable by other services?
>>
>> any insights appreciated !
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> rohan
>>
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