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As rpalmeira22 said it is probably just an overloaded connection between a couple of routers which is causing the odd packet to be dropped. You only need to loose around 2% of packets to make a huge difference to the voice quality.
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As rpalmeira22 said it is probably just an overloaded connection between a couple of routers which is causing the odd packet to be dropped. You only need to loose around 2% of packets to make a huge difference to the voice quality.

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I use voip. &nbsp;my ISP has financial incentive to make me stop. &nbsp;since they can't stop me by blocking ports, they instead randomly drop packets. &nbsp;so my pings anywhere in the world have a time out every 1-2 seconds.<br />
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the point of this is to make the VOIP unusable, but it still doesn't really effect email and the web.<br />
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anyone ever hear about this? &nbsp;how can I get by it? &nbsp;is this common? &nbsp; is this an actual scenario?<br />
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I'm interested in any comments.<br />
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kenw232@yahoo.com 
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I use voip.  my ISP has financial incentive to make me stop.  since they can't stop me by blocking ports, they instead randomly drop packets.  so my pings anywhere in the world have a time out every 1-2 seconds.

the point of this is to make the VOIP unusable, but it still doesn't really effect email and the web.

anyone ever hear about this?  how can I get by it?  is this common?   is this an actual scenario?

I'm interested in any comments.

kenw232@yahoo.com 

dropping packets to disrupt VOIP?

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, broadband telephony, and broadband phone service. The term specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).  Examples of the VoIP protocols are H.323, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.248 (also known as Media Gateway Control (Megaco)), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), Session Description Protocol (SDP), and Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX).