Jabber Best Practice for Remote users

Best practices for Jabber user working from Home

Your voice quality of Jabber depends of Various factor, however the network is the most essential factor to ensure a good voice quality. When you working from home , it always possible that lots of devices consuming internet at same time and it’s quite  possible that you get delay in the network. There are some common practices you can follow while working from home insure get better voice quality on Jabber.

1. Your Internet connection has adequate speed and stable.  
2. Make sure your wifi reception is good, and your home workplace close to router. Thick walls weaken the Wifi reception.
3. Try to avoid many Hops like Wifi extender or repeater.
4. If possible, use, ethernet cable which provides more stable connection then Wifi.
5. Stream Netflix, Amazon and YouTube videos on SD quality.
6. Connect Wifi connection on 5GHZ a/n, however wifi range of 5GHZ range is as good as 2.4 GHZ, but it’s provided better connection. If Your Router is far from your laptop then you can connect 2.4GHZ b/g/n
7. In every Home wifi router, you can find option QOS setting. It allows Router to priorities packets by application or by device.  We would recommend to use device Qos  and give highest priority of QoS. Below is the example of Netgear R6220 Wifi home router.