skype - incoming packet loss

[prozak]

Hi,

I have eventually obtained my ADSL and it sure beats dialup;
however my incoming packet loss on skype is around 20%, making meaningful
conversation impossible.
I know of the port shaping, but surely it cannot shape my 512 service to levels below that of 64 ISDN?

greets

prozak

 

[lewstherin]

Telkom can and does.

Welcome to the world of monopoly-provided broadband.

Simply put Telkom shapes by throwing away a percentage of your 'abusive' traffic (hence packet loss, which in turn gives u a crap download speed).
'Abusive' being pretty much anything that one would want to use ADSL for - gaming,online trading,VOIP,p2p,streaming media, the list goes on.

 

[Silent_Bob]

i am surprised it is so bad, i was on skype the other day at my friends place who has adsl 512, we had 3 people downloading all totalling about 51kbytes p/s so they were creaming the line and i needed to talk to my mate in england so i phoned ovr Skype, there was no lag and about 2% packet loss for an hour call. So try changing your ports and messing around with it. so far i havnt felt much from "THEM" shaping VOIP.

 

[Daveogg]

Yup shaping.
Options are unshaped package, or PM Clipse who can explain his unshaped vpn which works very well with Skype.

 

[WickedWeasel]

If you want to purchse unshapped bandwidth for Skype, PM me, we can setup a VOIP only tunnel for that. And the cost is quite low.

 

[prozak]

WickedWeasel,

your PM box is full

greets

prozak