Is it worth it? - QoS VoIP traffic for GW to internet.
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Hi All,
I'm using PFSENSE as my internet gateway for comcast business class internet. I currently use VoIP.ms as my SIP voip provider and would like to find a way to prioritize the traffic.
My issue here is that others in the house will load up a youtube video and kill my VoIP quality. It's my understanding that QOS is only as good as the two connection points over a dedicated link where ALL traffic is passing.
I suppose what I'm looking for here is too cap / slow the youtube traffic when I have VoIP traffic on the network.
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Hey rbblue8,
I too use voip.ms over IAX2 though. Now I am no expert but my solution was to create a PRIQ queue with VOIP and let everything else fall under the default queue. I then deleted and recreated the voip floating rule to lock down the source and destination with port 4569 (IAX2 udp port) in both direction. So I have 2 rules, 1 VOIP rule for voip.ms server ip to internal asterisk server and 1 VOIP rule asterisk server to voip.ms both using the qVOIP queue. PRIQ is a simple priority queue so it will choke anything lower then the queue that needs the bandwidth, so the VOIP queue with throttle the default in my case. I find my call quality to be great especially with incoming calls. Someone might have a better solution but this is one you could try.
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Hey,
Thanks for the response! :-)
Do you see a noticeable difference when you make a call while downloading?
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Hey,
Thanks for the response! :-)
Do you see a noticeable difference when you make a call while downloading?
If you cap both your upload and download to just below your providers true limit, I found it sounds as good as if there was no one downloading at all. Just a couple of minor hickups but I was just calling my cell phone and leaving a message to hear the difference. I very rarely saturate my line so for this I did remove my sabnzbd's cap on usenet while downloading to do. So give it a shot, I think you'll be happy with it.