when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jul 12, 2002), Austad, Jay was madly tapping out: > > Maybe we should set up a test program to spew 5060/udp packets to > > someone and see if they get received. Maybe they have it setup for > > just going vonage? > > Possibly, I haven't tested it to anywhere else, or tested using > different udp ports. The packets make it to vonage, but vonage > packets never make it back. They just implemented this NAT device > last week, and I'm unable to find out why. > > > I did speed test with their online speed test and I was getting > > 814 Kbps down, 184 up. > > Vonage uses the g711 codec, which takes up 64kbps. I don't know why > they don't use g723 or something which uses lower bandwidth. g723 > uses about 5kbps, and the quality is pretty much indistinguishable > through a phone speaker. it's not indistinguishable from a DSP perspective. it entails significantly more aggressive compression and their head end boxes may not support it. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC