My inital reaction would be try having two pipes for the upload and
two for the download, so that only a certain amount can ever be
allocated to normal downloads, but not sure if that wouldn't just
cause the same problems as seperate queues. Worth a try either way,
see what happens.

Dan


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:34:48 +0000, WipeOut
<wipe underscore out at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a VoIP box sitting on my LAN that uses an internet based PSTN
> termination provider..
> 
> I have tried the standard traffic shaping setup and created two queues
> (one high priority and one low priority) and put all the VoIP traffic
> through the high priority queue and everything else through the low
> priority queue but this hasn't really helped, if a phone call is in
> session and a pc downloads something the voice breaks up badly..
> 
> Is there a way to guarantee an amount of bandwidth to the VoIP host so
> that no matter what the other PC's on the network do there will always
> be enough bandwidth for the VoIP to operate??
> Or am I really waisting my time trying to manage this over the internet
> where there is no control anyway? (especially since its inbound traffic
> that I am trying to manage.. As well as outbound obviously)
> 
> Any help or input appreciated..
> 
> Thanks..
> 
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