vonage with torrents

[super2007]

I dont no if you guys have this issue or not but everytime i use p2p or torrents, doesn't matter from where or what bittorrent program. My voip vonage phone quality goes dead like the person on the phone cant hear me, and i cant hear them.

i Know its because of bandwidth and all but when the download speed is around 200kb its quality is bad but when i am downloading at 1mb sec using utorrent the quality seems fine on the phone.

as of result i have to seed at night, because day time phone rings and i have to turn it off.

while the webpages load extremely slow..

does any of you have this issue? or with any voip phone?

according to my research QOS can make quality better on routers, i dont have that feature but i am thinking to buy a d-link dir-655, which has QOS.

any input?

[gangaskan]

yes, set QOS to have high priority when you use vontage.


that should help :)

[Slimmy]

I had the same problem when I first got packet8 (voip). It took me six month to figure out the I needed a different router. Got a dlink with QOS in it and my voip quality is great.

Occasionally when using all my bandwidth (3mb/300kb) I still get problems.

[super2007]

I had the same problem when I first got packet8 (voip). It took me six month to figure out the I needed a different router. Got a dlink with QOS in it and my voip quality is great.

Occasionally when using all my bandwidth (3mb/300kb) I still get problems.


well thx alot..i am thinking to buy d-link dir-655, which one do you have?

[hajalie24]

make sure you dont seed a lot with your torrents, because then your basicly uploading 24/7

[gangaskan]

also what you can try is to up your connections


you may be maxing your connections per the WAN interface.



what kind of router do you have? and are you using any 3rd parties on it (aka DDWRT, Tomatoe, etc...)

[Slimmy]

I bought the di-724u, but it is discontinued. I think the d-link dir-655 should work out fine.

You could get a router that you can flash with tomato. I have heard that it has great QOS in it.

[super2007]

well i am running wgr614 with 13mb/512kb up,

what is tomato?
and how can i NOT max out on my connection? few tips plz..thx

[TollhouseFrank]

tomato is an open-source firmware designed to help you unlock all kinds of hidden goodies and settings inside your router.

[Moto7451]

You could always set limits on BT bandwidth to preserve your phone connection.

[gangaskan]

well i am running wgr614 with 13mb/512kb up,

what is tomato?
and how can i NOT max out on my connection? few tips plz..thx


poke around on your Wgr :) i'll do some digging, but some routers do not have this feature

edit: you can flash your router with DD-wrt i would suguest you do that anyways, but at any event, i cnant find any information based on your stuff.

[Cheator]

You could always set limits on BT bandwidth to preserve your phone connection.

It still won't be great until QoS is set. Any traffic going through his pipe unmanaged will take priority over voip time slots, and make it sound like crap. The only way to really cure the problem is to have a decent router with a good QoS engine, or go through the device vonage gave you (which I don't recommend, most voip adapters have crappy routers).

[Cheator]

poke around on your Wgr :) i'll do some digging, but some routers do not have this feature

edit: you can flash your router with DD-wrt i would suguest you do that anyways, but at any event, i cnant find any information based on your stuff.

If you do end up with DD-WRT which I recommend as well, you'll need the port range for vonage.

for vonage's (and most voip's) service, there are 2 streams of data. SIP which is call control (setup and teardown of calls, flashing, MWI etc) and then there is RTP. Its the RTP you want to prioritize, and it's port range is 10000-20000 UDP according to Vonage's site.


EDIT:Scratch that, forgot about DD-WRT's QoS. You can prioritize by mac address, so that'd be a better route to go. Just connect it right to the router and you will be fine.