 roccaStart.caPremium join:2008-11-16 London, ON kudos:11 | reply to taytong888
Re: Start Communications - new TPIA Rogers/Cogeco Unfortunately that's not a good IP (ie toronto.speedtest.net resolves to an IP in the US somewhere, then it uses some private address to get back to the local site), if you want to ping something close, 64.140.114.1 is a good number.
Can you PM me your account #, I'd like to take a look.
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Last night I flashed my Netgear router to run on a recent version of DD-WRT firmware and enabled QOS to give VOIP a "premium" or maximum bandwidth. I suspect this may have something to do with poor results tonight. Here are the speedtest.net results AFTER I disabled QOS feature, at the same time Outpost Free firewall suite is still being suspended:

On the other hand, speed test results with QOS enabled:

QOS parameters & values:
Port: WAN
Packet Scheduler: HFSC
Uplink (kbps): 320 (based on 80% of (erroneously low) upload speed)
Downlink (kbps): 11200 (based on 90% of (erroneously low) download speed)
I think for now I will disable QOS in the router as long as the quality of VOIP phone conversations is not affected. |
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I would still love to have a higher upload speed similar to Cogeco's. Perhaps I should ask Santa Claus. |
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 roccaStart.caPremium join:2008-11-16 London, ON kudos:11 | reply to taytong888 said by taytong888:Last night I flashed my Netgear router to run on a recent version of DD-WRT firmware and enabled QOS to give VOIP a "premium" or maximum bandwidth. I suspect this may have something to do with poor results tonight. Here are the speedtest.net results AFTER I disabled QOS feature, at the same time Outpost Free firewall suite is still being suspended: ... I think for now I will disable QOS in the router as long as the quality of VOIP phone conversations is not affected. Thanks for the followup. I seem to recall someone else having this exact problem with DD-WRT a week or two back in the Start forum (can't seem to find the reference now), but same thing: slower speeds, then went direct to modem and no problem. If I recall, they did the same thing and ended up disabling QoS. |
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 damirSFRJPremium join:2003-05-24 | reply to taytong888 said by taytong888:I would still love to have a higher upload speed similar to Cogeco's. Perhaps I should ask Santa Claus. LOL !  -- www.urimage.net - Free Image Hosting |
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 DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages join:2009-06-15 START&Cogeco kudos:6 | said by damir:said by taytong888:I would still love to have a higher upload speed similar to Cogeco's. Perhaps I should ask Santa Claus. LOL ! Rocca Claus ?  |
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 DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages join:2009-06-15 START&Cogeco kudos:6 | reply to rocca said by rocca:said by taytong888:Last night I flashed my Netgear router to run on a recent version of DD-WRT firmware and enabled QOS to give VOIP a "premium" or maximum bandwidth. I suspect this may have something to do with poor results tonight. Here are the speedtest.net results AFTER I disabled QOS feature, at the same time Outpost Free firewall suite is still being suspended: ... I think for now I will disable QOS in the router as long as the quality of VOIP phone conversations is not affected. Thanks for the followup. I seem to recall someone else having this exact problem with DD-WRT a week or two back in the Start forum (can't seem to find the reference now), but same thing: slower speeds, then went direct to modem and no problem. If I recall, they did the same thing and ended up disabling QoS. This same scenario happened to me (though I don't think that I posted about it at the time).
It was during the period that some folks were reporting faster than expected speeds in Cogeco-Land on START, as Start was testing these on exisiting accounts, prior to offering them officially, as well as to give a bit of a bonus to those of us who had had to 'tolerate' 16/1 service (instead of 20/1.5) earlier on for a while.
I did not notice this speed increase at first, but after troubleshooting and brainstorming, I turned off my QoS in Tomato in my router, and immediately I experienced a major improvement.
I too have left QoS disabled for now, manage p2p manually within the apps, and my VoIP seems reasonable so far.  |
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| reply to rocca said by rocca:said by taytong888:Last night I flashed my Netgear router to run on a recent version of DD-WRT firmware and enabled QOS to give VOIP a "premium" or maximum bandwidth. I suspect this may have something to do with poor results tonight. Here are the speedtest.net results AFTER I disabled QOS feature, at the same time Outpost Free firewall suite is still being suspended: ... I think for now I will disable QOS in the router as long as the quality of VOIP phone conversations is not affected. Thanks for the followup. I seem to recall someone else having this exact problem with DD-WRT a week or two back in the Start forum (can't seem to find the reference now), but same thing: slower speeds, then went direct to modem and no problem. If I recall, they did the same thing and ended up disabling QoS. Run the latest firmware and QoS is fixed. |
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 | Hi geokilla,
By "the latest firmware" do you mean DD-WRT SP24 Build 18946?
I am using eko Build 17990 mini. |
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