On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:08, greg wm wrote:
> hi,
>
> how can i best protect whatever bandwidth is needed by our skype
> connections?
>
> skype works great usually.  probably where it breaks down is when
> other activity loads down our connection.
>
> is there any fairly easy way to address this?  if it's too
> complicated i suppose i may have to just punt and get a second
> connection.  but even that would require some serious setup, in
> order to divert the skype connections.
>
> i had an experience a year ago or so where i noticed that under
> heavy (down)load, ping turnaround could take upto nearly 15
> seconds.  i interpreted that to mean the pings were waiting in a
> crowded packet queue.  i imagine these sorts of considerations
> could indeed make voip bandwidth protection a thorny issue.
>
> one supposedly simple idea that comes to mind is to somehow
> throttle packets as necessary so that there is always some headroom
> left in our connection bandwidth.  but i confess i wouldn't know
> offhand how to do even that..
>
> i'd like to see recommendations, pointers, experiences, ...
>
> tia,
> greg
>
> Greg Whitley Mott
> IT Coordinator
> NonviolentPeaceforce.org

There's alway the hardware solution, which may come in a blue box with 
that neat-o golden-gate bridge emblem on it. (cisco)

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel