Troubleshooting Voice Drop outs. Best Practices?

[sr98user]

Nuvio says your upload bandwidth is 5279472 bps (5M). Is that really true? I think you posted another speed test which shows 2.6 (M). Assuming its something close to it, I think the problem is not bandwidth. If you can just give your VOIP packets higher priority, I think you will be good to go. You have some jitter in the VOIP section which might be caused by the router. It could be your line too. But given the speedtest, I would lean more towards router issues

[Dave_N]

Nuvio says your upload bandwidth is 5279472 bps (5M). Is that really true? I think you posted another speed test which shows 2.6 (M). Assuming its something close to it, I think the problem is not bandwidth. If you can just give your VOIP packets higher priority, I think you will be good to go. You have some jitter in the VOIP section which might be caused by the router. It could be your line too. But given the speedtest, I would lean more towards router issues

I tend to agree that it is pointing to jitter. To the ear, it's hard to discern jitter versus loss because I presume the device discards the late packets. I did more nuvio testing in front and behind the router with my pc. In front of the router I get all green for the voip, behind I get red/yellows for qos and jitter, so it is pointing to the router. I'll look into to getting a better router. It is interesting that for the nuvio video test, it also doesn't like the jitter.

I know of Tom's hardware / Small net builder for router reviews. Are there other sites?

Thanks,

Dave