SIP dropouts? how do they sound?

[Jamon Camisso]

On 01/29/2010 11:59 AM, Mike Kallies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Peter<plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>> This may sound odd but I have large banging noises in SIP connections over not
>> so good lines. I thought there should only be drop-outs but it turns out there
>> are huge banging noises when this happens. I have some idea about why this
>> happens but I would like to know what other have seen. Most of the communication
>> is between Linux hosts and SIP softphones on Linux and Windows based remote
>> parties.
>
> I never had that kind of problem with SIP.  I was on Primus (It's not
> SIP, I know), and also used some of the free SIP
> (non-landline-connected) services from Windows to Linux and Linux to
> Linux.  I also use SIP daily at the office on dedicated Cisco
> hardware.
>
> Over the Internet, I did get the dropouts.  It created a reliability
> problem and outside of the office, I've never bothered with VoIP over
> the Internet for serious conversations since.
>
> But no banging noises from my experiences, even when lines were
> intolerably bad.  Just lots of cut-outs.

It doesn't sound like the protocol is the problem, more like a codec 
issue. Try a different one or different bitrate?

Jamon
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