[*] Interesting VoIP results with Shaw

John Lange john.lange at open-it.ca
Fri Sep 21 08:51:21 CDT 2007


For those that asked, yes it was with the Xtreme-I service. I actually
had to look it up on my bill since I couldn't remember what it was
called.

John

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:49 -0500, Rej Lafond wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Was that with High-Speed or High-Speed Xtreme-I?
> 
> Thanks
> Rej
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Lange wrote:
> > As part of some work I was doing for a client I had the opportunity to
> > answer the question "how many simultaneous VOIP calls can a Shaw
> > connection handle at one time?"
> >
> > The answer surprised me.
> >
> > I was able to sustain 13 calls using g711u with almost no audio drop
> > out. Approximating g711 at 65Kb/s, this means I was getting about
> > 845Kb/s upstream.
> >
> > It should be noted that the connection was completely idle otherwise.
> >
> > Obviously if we put some compression on it could go much higher.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John
> >
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