2014: The year the Americans broke the internet

Re:2014: The year the Americans broke the internet by aidenn0 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @06:55PM (#7301663)

Note that I've seen VOIP latency increase in the wake of a cable-company deploying a phone option. Disguising the nature of the traffic caused the latency to drop again.

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Re:2014: The year the Americans broke the internet by rahimnathwani on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:15PM (#7301756)

How do you disguise the nature of the traffic without also changing the route taken by the packets?

I would be inclined to test this with/without a VPN connection, but then I wouldn't know whether the improvement was due to avoiding throttling/whatever, or just that my VPN server has better quality routes to the VoIP endpoint.

I guess if you VPN to the VoIP server itself, then it would be a fair test.

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Re:2014: The year the Americans broke the internet by aidenn0 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:22PM (#7301805)

All RTP seemed to exhibit the issue, so we just setup a test with two RTP endpoints. We wrote a very simple UDP mangler/demangler (XOR with a fixed key) and ran it on both ends of the RTP connection.

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