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