Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] 500 ekiga net comes back all garbled

[Leon Stringer <leon stringer ntlworld com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 00:54 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> My connection is good (it's 5Mb/s DSL, and indeed the viedo loopback looks
> >> OK and looks better at 32KB/s than at 8KB/s), so I'm at a loss.

> > Go through the druid again and select ISDN as your connection and try the
> > echo test again. If you can't get to work with lower bandwidth codecs it
> > won't work with faster ones. I know you've got a 5Mbps connection but the
> > actual bandwidth in practice may vary...
> 
> I know the actual bandwidth is not 5Mb/s, but as mentioned, the video
> quality significantly improved when I bumped the max bandwidth from 8KB/s to
> 16KB/s and then 32KB/s, so it seems that I do get more than 16KB/s (aka
> 128Kb/s) of actual bandwidth between the two machines.  That should be
> plenty for the 64Kb/s of PCMA (even after eating up 8KB/s for video), right?
> Unless the video and the audio payload follow different routes?

AFAIK, both audio and video are sent as a stream of UDP datagrams each
of which could take a different route. That said, all things being equal
they will typically take the same route.

My point was that when I had initial problems with this I started
simple. Testing between two hosts on my home LAN showed that the
hardware/drivers were working fine...