VOIP causes connection speed to drop?

Question

I subscribe to Earthlink's true voice service, which is a VOIP telephone line. I use roadrunner cable for my high speed internet connection. When I connect from my modem straight into the PC, my connection is 100Mbps, however, when I put the voice adapter inline, my connection drops to 10Mbps...Is this normal?

The adapter is a linksys analog telephone adaptor which was provided by Earthlink.

Both of the cables that I use to connect are high speed cables, and I have tested both of them independantly of the voice adapter.

Answer 1

Your voice adapter is only capable of 10Mbps. That's why the speed drops down when you put it between your PC and modem.

I'd put a 100Mbps router or switch between your modem and PC. Then put your voice adapter off of the router and your PC off of the router too. Then your PC will get 100Mbps.

Answer 2

First, remember that you do NOT have a 100MBPS internet connection.
Cable is generally from 1.5-8MBPS.
When you use the VOIP, it does use some of the bandwidth, but not all that much.
The only thing the 10/100 affects is the internal network (LAN).
If you have several computers connected to the network, get a router, plug all the PCs into that and plug the modem into the WAN port of the router.
That way you will have 100MBPS capability between computers, your internet speed will be unaffected.

Answer 3

possibly no longer, honestly. VOIP and streaming video count lots greater upon your upstream bandwidth. except you're a great Fortune 3 hundred corporation with a great pipe connecting you to the internet, your upstream bandwidth is the proscribing component, no longer your on the spot community. Even an 802.11b on the spot working at 11 mbps is lots swifter than your upstream bandwidth that's possibly lots decrease than a million mbps and specific decrease than 512k. Going to 'N' might provide you bigger overall performance on your LAN yet won't influence your connectivity to the exterior worldwide in any respect. in case you're dropping VOIP calls the streaming video is very almost extremely the criminal. in the adventure that your router helps QoS (high quality of provider) set it to supply the utmost priority to VOIP and set the streaming video one step decrease. you are going to might desire to go with between 2 bandwidth hogs right here that are the two mushy to delays and out-of-sequence packet arrival. basically you are able to make certain that's the main needed. in the adventure that your router does no longer help QoS, get one that does such via fact the Netgear WNR834Bv2. i exploit that one and set VOIP to the utmost priority and each thing else to medium or decrease and characteristic no longer dropped a decision considering.