Not at all tanderson3733. Traffic over the network is only one part of the problem. You can significantly improve your voice quality by prioritizing traffic TO the network (i.e. at your gateway/router). If I have already queued my voice traffic when it hits the router then I am guaranteed issues. If I can insure that voice traffic hitting the Internet goes out without delay/queuing then I am already a step in the right direction. I can hear a significant difference in my daily voice traffic when I use a Kentrox or Adtran where my voice traffic is prioritized vs when I use my SonicWall where it is not. On the SonicWall if I send a large email attachment or I start up uTorrent, thus taking my bandwidth to near capacity, I hear the difference. With the Adtran the data traffic is queued to allow the voice priority, I hear little to no difference. Goes back to the old programming phrase, garbage in garbage out. You dump poor voice quality into your Internet connection and you're sure to get poor voice quality on the other end. Dump good voice quality in and your far more likely to get acceptable to good quality on the other end.
Kyle Holladay
ACA-I, ACA Call Center, ACS-I, ACS-M, TIA-CTP, MCP/MCTS Exchange 2007
ACE Implement: IP Office
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