when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jul 12, 2002), 
 Austad, Jay was madly tapping out:
> > Maybe we should set up a test program to spew 5060/udp packets to
> > someone and see if they get received. Maybe they have it setup for
> > just going vonage?
> 
> Possibly, I haven't tested it to anywhere else, or tested using
> different udp ports.  The packets make it to vonage, but vonage
> packets never make it back.  They just implemented this NAT device
> last week, and I'm unable to find out why.
> 
> > I did speed test with their online speed test and I was getting
> > 814 Kbps down, 184 up.
> 
> Vonage uses the g711 codec, which takes up 64kbps.  I don't know why
> they don't use g723 or something which uses lower bandwidth.  g723
> uses about 5kbps, and the quality is pretty much indistinguishable
> through a phone speaker.

it's not indistinguishable from a DSP perspective.  it entails
significantly more aggressive compression and their head end boxes may
not support it.



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steve ulrich                       sulrich at botwerks.org
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