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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:25 pm
by GORDON
I wasn't worried about security so much, I was worried about 100% of my network traffic having another hop to get through the phone, and not knowing how efficient the transition would be. If it was 10ms, that would be more than I want. Would prefer to just plug it into my gigabit switch, as you did.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:39 pm
by Cakedaddy
Just know the speed of your switch is irrelevant in this scenario. It's your low upstream speed that counts. All the clients on your switch eat that up really quick. Er, well, your wife does.
Make your next switch a managed switch. Then you can have a telnet session open to it at all times. Wife starts eating bandwidth in the middle of a game, disable her port real quick.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:14 am
by GORDON
Ha.
I actually tried to reduce her bandwidth via QOS by 25% once, and it ground her to a halt. I decided QOS wasn't quite ready yet.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:42 am
by TheCatt
The times I've used QoS, it's usually been a disaster on the router, killing it.
Admittedly, I haven't tried in years.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 3:03 pm
by TheCatt
So... anyone using Ooma?
I looked it up, and the device is about $120, and the service (basic) is $5/month (all state and federal taxes).
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:52 am
by TheCatt
Signed up for Ooma today. Takes 3-4 weeks to port existing phone number from Time Warner, so I guess I won't really be using it until then. (Or maybe I can forward that # to the new ooma #?).
At any rate, will update once we're using it day to day.