So what stops this from happening a year from now, leaving our VOIP system high and dry for a decent broadband connection ?
Matt: do you do SIP on broadband with "Telcom" Has their latency addition wrecked your connection ? Thanks. On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:03 +1300, Matt Riddell wrote: > Kim Lux wrote: > > That is a good point. I never thought of doing that. > > > > They could kill SIP connections by subtly delaying any upload traffic > > streams, ie introducing latency or jitter. > > LOL! As our New Zealand Telecom's Provider/Internet Provider has done. > A little background - in New Zealand we have one company really - > Telecom. They provide the Internet and the telephone services. A > couple of weeks ago they added 30ms of latency to all connections and no > one batted an eyelid. > > While playing counterstrike on foreign servers (Australia mainly) I > regularly get jitter of 300-400ms (i.e. the game starts at 120ms ping > and at times rises above 500ms). > > Here the regulatory power is called the commerce commission. They were > about to release a finding that Telecom (which was originally state > owned) had to unbundle their lines. However, about one or two weeks > before the finding was released, they changed their mind. Much to the > detriment of New Zealand internet... > > So, once again, the big boys get to keep their toys, while we can but > beg for quality service... > -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
