"Ian" <spam"AT"bathfordhill.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Dave Gill" <spam-egg-chips-n-spam@spamsoff.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > davew <daviey.walker*SPAM*virgin.net> wrote:
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> > > What speed is your broadband? I had 512k dl (256k up) adsl and had
> > > similar issues as you describe. When i upgraded to 1mb the problem
> > > seems to have disappeared. The problem was most noticeable when my
> > > other pc was checking for new mail.
> >
> > It's 512 down/128 up but that should be OK with QoS/little other traffic
> > on the line.
> >
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> Hi.
>
> No that wont be good enough for G711, You cannot expect to use near 100%,
> which is what you are doing. Try using G729 or GSM, or get a better upload
> speed.
>
> Sorry to say expecting G711 to work reliably is out of the question.
>
> Ian
>

For the record, the G729 codec will work fine on a 512/128 connection, I
only have a 300/64k cable conection (as its free with the phone line) and
VOIP works fine and reliably over that with the G729 codec. At another house
where I use the VOIP adaptor there its s 2Mb/200k connection, and I still
use G729 codec as G711 takes up too much bandwidth and jitters alot if my
computer tried to do anything. G729 isnt as good quality, although its
comparable to GSM which I thinks fine, and everyone I call have better
things to do than to listen closely to the quality of the line to see if it
sounds like a mobile or fixed line!

If it isnt a bandwidth issue, have you a faulty handset that leaks some of
the output to the mic/mic circuit? It might not have been noticable when it
was plugged into PSTN, as theres not any lag, and most fixed line phones
play your voice through the earpiece when you talk (so having it relayed to
you instantaneously would sound normal over PSTN), but now that theres the
0.5s ishdelay with VOIP it might be apparent. Try a different handset? If if
its a cordless phone and it has an exceptionally loud earpiece setting then
the mic could be picking that up and retransmitting it (again now with the
noticable delay).

Alex