On 03/01/2011 11:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
It's worked out great for me in a number of places. OTOH, it was kind of dicey even without the torrents from other places.
I found that bandwidth and jitter were the bigger issues than other applications I was sharing the link with.
I even managed to get passable call quality (though far from ideal) calling the US on a US third party provider from my soft-phone on my laptop from Kigali, Rwanda. I think that's close to a worst case scenario, frankly.
These days, voice is a very low-bandwidth service. On any decent link, it seems to get through just fine.
Right, if it wasn't skype would be useless which it manifestly isn't. Which is why all the heavy machinery to dynamically provision qos for the rtp flows was, per typical, overwhelmed by moore's law. I floated that heresy about 10 years ago, but by then there was too much invested in seeing it through. Mike, skype shows you can do all manner of horrible things and still work... real time media over tcp!