[TriLUG] Site to Site VPN over the net? Good enough for VoIP?

[Jim Ray]

it won't be the first time i've missed something :-)

my point is that regardless of how good of a connection you have to the 
Internet or of how good the hosting facility is, you're usually passing 
over more than one hop owned by more than one carrier and have no 
control over latency.

trace route tells all.

Ryan Leathers wrote:

>I think you missed something Jim -
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>Jon is contrasting the merits of a leased line with a shared connection
>(VPN or NO-VPN).  More than this, the selection of the leased line
>technology/provider is relevant.  Placement of a switch/gateway/proxy or
>whatever is one matter, the network facilities are another. 
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