[Elecraft] How reliable an internet connection is needed for A K3 remote to work well?

[Mitch Wolfson DJØQN]

Just a further tip from my side:  the RemoteRig RRC allows ToS tagging. 
It is entered in the advanced settings under "IP Type-of-Service (dec)". 
The manual refers to RFC791 that use this in QoS networks and support 
this function. Entries must be made in decimal.

Unfortunately, I have found no "home" routers so far (at least here in 
DL) that support QoS tags. However, this will for sure help those that 
do have routers supporting QoS.

73,
Mitch DJ0QN

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On 18.07.2014 11:22, David Woolley wrote:
> It is standard to use UDP (RTP) over VoIP for the reasons given by 
> Iain.  Over a corporate network, VoIP traffic should have a QoS 
> tagging on the IP packets which causes routers to prioritise it. VoIP 
> over the internet has always been done for cost, not quality reasons, 
> as the whole concept behind IP networks is at conflict with constant 
> rate traffic; the telephone industry devised ATM as a packet network 
> for that application (although they are now moving to IP, because 
> voice is no longer the dominant bandwidth user - but I am sure they 
> will prioritise their voice traffic).
>
> RTP has a marker bit which indicates a safe place to dump a latency 
> buffer's contents.  Conceivably setting this during tuning would be a 
> good idea.  If the remote operation protocol doesn't user RTP, someone 
> has been re-inventing the wheel.
>
> As someone mentioned WiFi.  It is generally accepted, in the VoIP 
> world, that WiFi and VoIP don't mix because WiFi introduces additional 
> latency.  I believe it also does link level retransmission which, 
> means latency can be particularly bad if you don't have ideal conditions.
>