I use a linksys ATA that was subsidised by Vonage and then unlocked by myself

There is a big thread on the broadband forums about doing the unlocking, I will try and find the link when I am back in work tomorrow.

I use sipdiscount as my VoIP provider.

i cant remember what its called, but that thing where the pc/router will put the most importaint info first and give it priority over other data...

hows that work, and could it be used for this so I could use voip at home instead wihtout lagging to much when the connections getting a bashing ?

Quality of service, there are specific ata+router things that will apply QoS to VOIP, but it does help itself in some degrees... i.e. dynamically picking codecs to utilise the bandwidth as needed.

Routers at the higher end of the home market will probabaly be able to priorities traffic based on port or even packet matching. "ooh this looks like a voip packet -- lets promote it to the front of the queue".

I assume this is what knighty is referring to.

Note that you can only do this with outgoing traffic - not incoming.

In linux you can use iptables to assign TOS (type of service) flags to the VOIP traffic which will help.


Cornet

Quote from: NimrodI use a linksys ATA that was subsidised by Vonage and then unlocked by myself

There is a big thread on the broadband forums about doing the unlocking, I will try and find the link when I am back in work tomorrow.

I use sipdiscount as my VoIP provider.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14450684%7Edays=9999

There you go.