12-05-2006, 11:29 PM
[quote M A V I C]I'll take a speedtest when I get done uploading this 150MB file, but it's usually around 6Mb down and 300kb up. I can pay an additional $10/mo and get that increased.
Your bottleneck will be in your upload speed... as VOIP is a two way street in terms of bandwidth. In otherwords... the incoming stream might sound fine, but YOUR outgoing stream (your voice) will be fighting with all the other upstream traffic for that 300kbps. Probably not a problem for a single VOIP line, but maybe asking for trouble with 2... especially if you do a lot of uploading at the same time :} Theere are QoS (quality of service?) settings in many routers that allow you to reserve a fixed minimum of your upload (or download) streams for you VOIP services, which would mean in heavy use, your uploads (of files/traffic) would suffer and not your VOIP sound quality... at least in theory. Haven't experiemented too much with this myself yet.
Your bottleneck will be in your upload speed... as VOIP is a two way street in terms of bandwidth. In otherwords... the incoming stream might sound fine, but YOUR outgoing stream (your voice) will be fighting with all the other upstream traffic for that 300kbps. Probably not a problem for a single VOIP line, but maybe asking for trouble with 2... especially if you do a lot of uploading at the same time :} Theere are QoS (quality of service?) settings in many routers that allow you to reserve a fixed minimum of your upload (or download) streams for you VOIP services, which would mean in heavy use, your uploads (of files/traffic) would suffer and not your VOIP sound quality... at least in theory. Haven't experiemented too much with this myself yet.