DSL_Ricer
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| reply to DrXenon
Re: VOIP in the presence of throttling
said by DrXenon  :So, the question is: how can my VOIP and my bit torrents coexist in the presence of throttling? Is there a router that I can buy that does a better job of QoS than my Linksys? In short: you can't.
In long: yes, there's something you can do, but it's quite distasteful: using QoS, limit your entire line to their lowest throttling setting. At current it's 30KB/s. If they decide to add lower settings then you'll have to reconfigure it, so it's not robust at all. Your router's QoS should allow you to set a maximum rate.
If you go the linux route, with non-trivial effort, you could do to make it more palatable: you could trigger a script to run when a VoIP call is detected to then limit your link to 30KB/s. You could also limit this effects to certain periods of the day. The fact that the throttling periods and rates aren't fixed makes this difficult and means that you'll never be able to be fully utilizing your link during your calls.
BTW, the problem you described is exactly why I switched from Bell to Teksavvy (and, at least so far, I'm still not throttled on Teksavvy). |
