at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER nick hilliard wrote apologies for the possible silly question i don t think it is but but is eircom s adsl service nat ed no you get unfiltered access with a real but dynamic ip address and what implications would that have for voip i know there are difficulties with voip or connecting to clients connected to a nat ed network from the internet wild i e machines with static real ips you will probably suffer from the high latency of dls lines typically you re talking about NUMBERms rtt to the local bas which is pretty high if your voip application can handle this then you re ok nick what s the deal with all this latency it s not like that in other places where i ve used dsl i read some story about it being done that way to allow greater distances to be covered or something like that however my knowledge of physics is really only newtonian and i don t understand how worsening latency could possibly improve the reliability of a NUMBER foot long piece of copper perhaps it has something to do with stretching the time space continuum can someone explain this in words of five syllables or less a _______________________________________________ iiu mailing list iiu URL URL antoin o lachtnain antoin URL URL NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _______________________________________________ iiu mailing list iiu URL URL 