Hi all. I am a new Ooma owner, but not new to VoIP or Network configuration.
I read a lot of posts here regarding if the Ooma Telo should be placed BEFORE or AFTER the Router with respect to the quality of service and thus quality of voice calls with Ooma.
I currently setup my new Ooma Telo as Modem-Ooma-Router - all is well. I am thinking about switching to Modem-Router-Ooma to get around a few issues that broke with my network, but I can live with those broken services so long as the quality of voice service is not degraded with Ooma.
Even if I setup a fixed IP and QoS maxed on my router for Ooma, I am still thinking that my Netgear Router will degrade the performance of my Ooma voice quality and / or intruduce some delays.
I currently have TimeWarner Cable modem with high bandwidth (commercial speed), but I am thinking that my Netgear Router still has to do a lot of processing with Ooma packets going back and forth. Add wireless connections that my router has to also manage, I am thinking my home Netgear Router will ultimately slow down when it's busy passing packets back-and-forth and no matter what QofS I setup on my Router, my Ooma voice quality will suffer.
So my question is: For those of you with Ooma behind your home router configured correctly with QoS, have you noticed any degration is Ooma voice quality or slowness? Slowness in the sense you say something and it takes a bit to have it acknowledged.
I read a lot of posts here regarding if the Ooma Telo should be placed BEFORE or AFTER the Router with respect to the quality of service and thus quality of voice calls with Ooma.
I currently setup my new Ooma Telo as Modem-Ooma-Router - all is well. I am thinking about switching to Modem-Router-Ooma to get around a few issues that broke with my network, but I can live with those broken services so long as the quality of voice service is not degraded with Ooma.
Even if I setup a fixed IP and QoS maxed on my router for Ooma, I am still thinking that my Netgear Router will degrade the performance of my Ooma voice quality and / or intruduce some delays.
I currently have TimeWarner Cable modem with high bandwidth (commercial speed), but I am thinking that my Netgear Router still has to do a lot of processing with Ooma packets going back and forth. Add wireless connections that my router has to also manage, I am thinking my home Netgear Router will ultimately slow down when it's busy passing packets back-and-forth and no matter what QofS I setup on my Router, my Ooma voice quality will suffer.
So my question is: For those of you with Ooma behind your home router configured correctly with QoS, have you noticed any degration is Ooma voice quality or slowness? Slowness in the sense you say something and it takes a bit to have it acknowledged.
Last edited by joe123 on Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.