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VoIP is one Internet application which is extremely susceptible to problems in the network such as lag or latency, and jitter. While these problems will also affect other applications, none of them suffer from performance degradation as much as VoIP because it's a real-time service. A round trip delay of 300 milliseconds will be very noticeable and there are many things which can be done to improve the response time. In this article, we look at using VoIP at home and what modifications you can make to your home network in order to ensure that you have an easier time using it.
Usually, only business network administrators need to bother their heads with things like Quality of Service (QoS) because of the complexity of the network and the sheer volume of traffic. But if you use VoIP at home, it's time to get familiar with such terminology in order to improve your experience. Not that it's difficult - you just need to fiddle around a bit with the settings to make sure all goes well.
The idea is that there are different types of Internet traffic you will be exposed to. HTTP traffic for regular web pages, video, music and the like. Similarly, VoIP is a separate form of traffic which your router should be able to detect most easily. Our task is to go into the router's configuration page and tell it to prioritize IP voice traffic over every other kind. How the router does this internally is its business. In older routers, you would probably have to specify every single portion of the rules but these days, they are intelligent enough to do it themselves.
Also, many routers come inbuilt with instructions to treat VoIP at a different level. If so, then there's no harm in going inside and checking to make sure. The first step is to go to your router's admin page. If it came with a manual, it should be inside that. Otherwise, type the model number into Google and someone would have written instructions on how to do this.
Navigate to the QoS or Quality of Service section and follow the interface to add VoIP as a high priority service. As mentioned before, this might already be the case. If not, just make the changes and you're good to go! There are other more advanced techniques such as port forwarding which we'll take a look at in future articles.
Bhagwad is an expert consultant on Choosing an SIP Account. He also specializes in SIP Provider Reviews.