when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jul 12, 2002), Austad, Jay was madly tapping out: > > > 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. > > The ATA-186 device supports it. It's possible they ripped the support out > of it though since they run custom software on it. it's not the CPE that's the problem i'm referring to. it's the head end. they may not have support for this in the concentrators that thye're using. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC