Been on Ooma for about 8 weeks and have only had a couple of calls a month with brief echo, or garbled voice, for several seconds, and a few other minor issues. I hadn't realized that I had done only the very basic setup of Modem-Router-Ooma, but am more than happy to try Modem-Ooma-Router yet am not sure there would be advantages. Since it isn't broken might make sense to just enjoy life, on the other hand I might be missing out on even better call quality.
Fairly consistently, checking over days and different times of day at Speedtest.net pingtest.net:
Upload 1.15MB
Download 5MB
Ping Test usually A or A-
Ping 24 - 28ms
Jitter 8 to 12ms
No packet loss
MOS about 4.1 to 4.3
I live by myself, and it is rare that I am on an Ooma call and simultaneously sending email with large attachment; or streaming Netflix (would put it on pause). I do work from home at times and VPN connect to office computer and might simultaneously be talking to office on phone; these calls have not been problematic.
It seems like it is only the very last situation where allocating bandwidth to Ooma might make for a better and more consistent experience.
If it is recommended that I experiment, I understand where to set things at initially 80% of upload/download. Is the 80% to be multiplied by a) the lowest/highest speed test number; b) the median/average speed test number.
As usual thanks for cutting my learning curve.
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My Ooma system is very simple - Telo and cordless Panasonic phone plugged into Telo; all into battery backup. No fax, or whole house wired connection, server, or anything else like that.
Fairly consistently, checking over days and different times of day at Speedtest.net pingtest.net:
Upload 1.15MB
Download 5MB
Ping Test usually A or A-
Ping 24 - 28ms
Jitter 8 to 12ms
No packet loss
MOS about 4.1 to 4.3
I live by myself, and it is rare that I am on an Ooma call and simultaneously sending email with large attachment; or streaming Netflix (would put it on pause). I do work from home at times and VPN connect to office computer and might simultaneously be talking to office on phone; these calls have not been problematic.
It seems like it is only the very last situation where allocating bandwidth to Ooma might make for a better and more consistent experience.
If it is recommended that I experiment, I understand where to set things at initially 80% of upload/download. Is the 80% to be multiplied by a) the lowest/highest speed test number; b) the median/average speed test number.
As usual thanks for cutting my learning curve.
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My Ooma system is very simple - Telo and cordless Panasonic phone plugged into Telo; all into battery backup. No fax, or whole house wired connection, server, or anything else like that.