I hear mention every day about "I can't use italk" or My VoIP garbles up as latency is to high, I have never seen such problems.

With todays testing 1RXTT, EVDO, GPRS, UMTS, ADSL, Dial-up. I only had problems using GPRS and even that worked though was extremely stuttery. Dial-up was clean sounding but delayed. I even managed some pretty good two way video (15FPS, 160x120, 3GP mp4 encoding with AMR NB)with a friend down country over UMTS. (thanks to the random Directshow AMR/3gp CODEC)

Could somone eleborate on this? I have an iTalk phone, and get consistently low pings (see below) so have no problems, It works great for me.

I am (Still) on Ihug Bliink 256/128Kbps 20GB and am scared if I change plans or providers I'll get much higher pings. does anybody know more on this?


This or next week should see some interesting on-the-road testing (when I manage a chance before returning to full time work)


here are the ping tests.
Pinging akl.italk.co.nz [203.184.16.2] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 203.184.16.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 68ms, Maximum = 78ms, Average = 74ms

D:\Documents and Settings\Da HooD>ping akl.italk.co.nz

Pinging akl.italk.co.nz [203.184.16.2] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=73ms TTL=55
Reply from 203.184.16.2: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=55