OBI200 / GV / CC
SteveInWA:
So, are you saying that calls made/received with your OBi are experiencing audio quality issues now, or were you just posting in the abstract, for nice-to-know reasons?
As much as I despise Comcast, I seriously doubt they're doing anything like degrading service for people who don't lease their modems. It would be both illegal and a really dumb move from a PR perspective.
Cable internet problems are often caused by physically degraded coax lines -- moisture incursion into the cable, corrosion on connectors, damage by animal bites (e.g rodents), poor earth ground, etc.
If you have intermittent cable service issues, you can raise your blood pressure by calling Comcast and complaining about the service.
Ember1205:
I'm sick of calling Comcast - I know more than their first two tiers of support (seriously... I've built pretty large networks plenty of times and understand the technology quite well) and get frustrated with their scripts.
I'd like to ensure that call quality is never impacted - period. So, it's a bit more of an abstract / looking for guidance on Best Practices kind of thing more than trying to troubleshoot an active issue. Part of the reason is because I would like to be able to very quickly say "it isn't my setup" if a problem DOES arise and I get right into the troubleshooting of the device, service, connectivity via broadband, etc.
SteveInWA:
"Best practice" in a home network environment, with an OBi 200, would be to connect it as I said, and forget about it. If you want to mess with QoS settings in your router/firewall, you can reserve some bandwidth for the OBi's MAC address.
Ember1205:
Yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking. The ASUS AC3100 router doesn't make this terribly easy, however.
I'll give it a whirl without any special settings and see what happens.
Thanks.
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