I am just considering getting satellite internet as I live in a very remote area and wireless is proving difficult and expensive. I use skype conferencing for an hour every day and wondered if anyone has experience of whether it will work.
Sunny: I am just considering getting satellite internet as I live in a very remote area and wireless is proving difficult and expensive. I use skype conferencing for an hour every day and wondered if anyone has experience of whether it will work.
My guess is that it will work ok. I have a worse situation than usual, as you can tell from my last posts in this thread, in that I can see a consistent 3% packet loss when I ping my static ip address from anywhere or when I ping anywhere from home. I can't tell yet how well things will work once IPSTAR and ICONZ fix that, but you should get better results than I have seen. I have never tried a skype conference call, but with skype I am able to get very good results when I talk skype-to-skype to someone in the US, usually usable but sometimes not results when calling a telephone in the US, and never usable results calling a New Zealand phone. I haven't used skype in any other way so I don't have other results to give you.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, it appears that to use a VOIP provider such as VFX you need to have IPSTAR configure 64kbps of CIR and also enable CBR for packets from and to your VOIP provider's server on your gateway and on your modem. I don't see how the CBR could help with skype calls, but I can imagine that the CIR would.
Thanks for that, Sidney. it's obvious that one of the NZ satellite providers has been watching this forum and knew all about the CBR and CIR. Some of them don't have mguch clue so I will steer well clear.
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