[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“The quality of my VoIP phone calls suffered whenever I was
downloading or uploading anything. This was irritating, especially
for those calling me (I heard them better than they heard me). So I
poked at Iproute2 and other howtos, especially with regard to VoIP
traffic, but I couldn’t find anything that worked well. After some
playing around, I’ve found settings that were right for me:
consistant VoIP quality, regardless of any activities on the
wire.“A note regarding my VoIP system: I’m using Asterisk on a spare
laptop (IBM T20), and my VoIP provider is the excellent Unlimitel,
in Canada. Since I host my own Asterisk box, I can pretty much
configure it to do whatever I want. I also bought an IAX hardphone
which resides on my intranet…”