Static/Choppy sound on calls for incoming caller

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Gatrie

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Hello,

My company manages a number of PBXs for different clients and over the last week or so we received reports of the static/choppy/underwater sound for incoming calls. We tackled a number of troubleshooting items, summary:
- Reboot of all PBXs
- Reboot of all networking equipment
- Reboot of all ISP networking equipment
- Reboot of proxy servers setup for relay
- Rebuild of all physical phone endpoint templates
- Reprovision of all devices

All with no luck in resolving the issue. Today we discovered that softphones were having a problem as well, which was previously thought only physical phones were the problem. Running packet captures on a call, there was nothing apparent dropping or blocking firewall ports. Listening to the call recording for that single call, from one managed PBX to another managed PBX, shows the external caller as choppy but the internal caller is fine for each recording pulled from its respective PBX. In other words, two recordings, of the same call, show issues with the opposite caller depending on which one you listen to.

I'm running short on places to continue troubleshooting, since this is happening on 5 different PBX/networks, with 2 different internet carriers, in four different cities between them. Any suggestions on where next to focus efforts?
 
Hi @Gatrie

So what are you using for external calls? A SIP Trunk provider or a gateway? What PBX version are you using? Are you on Debian or Windows? Are the systems hosted or on premise?

A good troubleshooting test is to take a local device and dial *777 and listed to the audio coming back to you? If that is OK then take a remote device (a remote phone or a 3CX mobile app) register it outside the local LAN and do the same test. Is the audio coming back to you ok?

The other way to troubleshoot this is to run packet captures and exporting the audio directly from Wireshark for each end. This will tell you if the audio is reaching the NIC of your machine OK or if its coming mangled from the provider. You can also check jitter and dropped packets from Wireshark.

Alternatively you can open a ticket with our support department if you are running a supported setup and have our support check the issue.
 
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