Tools to diagnose QOS issues?

Need a lot more info to help.

  • What up/down speeds do you have on your internet connection (speedtest.net or similar)?
  • Is it a single connection or do you have a multi-WAN router?
  • What router make/model do you have?
  • What QoS settings do you have in the router?
  • Are you confident the problems are not within your own LAN?
  • Do you have SIP ALG switched OFF in the router?
  • How many simultaneous internal/external active calls?
  • How many phones? Makes/models?
  • Do the call problems occur with specific phones only?
  • What switches do you have between the phones and the router?
  • What codec are you using?

There’s very little “magic” about QoS - it’s really just a “weighting” system to determine which packets get preference IF AND WHEN the pipe gets busy. So the first task is to know exactly how busy your connection is getting - a good router should have the tools built in to help you with that. My Draytek 2960’s also show me dynamic bar charts of low/normal/medium/high priority traffic, as a way of verifying that the QoS settings are appropriate.

Depending on your non-VoIP traffic, it may be worth installing a second internet connection dedicated to voice traffic, using a dual-WAN router to direct the traffic.

J

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