Steve Phillips wrote:
Erin Salmon - Unleash Computers Ltd wrote:
In regards to Craig Spiers' comments, I doubt Telecom would see any amount of processing power as justification not to render VoIP useless on their networks. 20,000 Skype users must be hurting them.
I think you can be 99.9% confident that IDGs statements about UBS are correct. Try using a VoIP application on a UBS line, especially during peak times, and you'll see what I mean. In order to cap the speed to 256kbps Telecom does just drop packets. I understand this is a limitation of the current hardware at the exchanges, and that it will be replaced at some point in the future by equipment which can queue packets instead (probably when they roll out ADSL2+). While queuing packets isn't fantastic for VoIP either, it's a step forward from dropping them altogether. Queuing is certainly more efficient for ordinary TCP and even streamed UDP traffic, because data doesn't need to be resent from the source.
I have a special going on tinfoil hats at the moment. Stock is running out fast.
You're missing the big picture - how can we get VoIP to run across the Telecom brain-control rays? In-Head Skype could be an emergent technology.