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really? I frequently video conference to places will 11 hour time differences, and I am constantly amazed how well it works. I am pretty sure 10 years ago this

• sanderjd 10y ago
  It definitely wasn't. I worked at a web conferencing company in 2007 and my sense was that video conferencing was limited to big entities with deep pockets and dedicated setups. Now anybody can do it and it works pretty well. It would be nice to get from "pretty well" to "so close to perfect that everyone forgets this was ever a hard thing", and it does seem like progress has been a bit slow on that front, but it seems like we're at the point where it will continuously improve constantly but almost imperceptibly.
  • semi-extrinsic 10y ago
    I remember skyping my girlfriend over shitty satellite internet from an island off Brazil in 2009, on an Atom-powered netbook running Linux. It worked (barely), but on regular internet it was not worse than the low end quality of today.
• semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  I did a Hangout a few weeks ago from Europe to a startup in TX. At least on my end I was on a 1Gbps fat academic ISP; can't speak for the other guy, but he was in his office. Still, voice and video quality was poor and we had to restart everything once. Also have had many poor quality video conferences on Lync/Skype for Business where all participants have been on the same fat academic ISP.
  • tlarkworthy 10y ago
    Yeah it happens. I still have both Skype and hangouts and swap depending on who is having a bad day. Still, it used to be much worse, but it's nowhere near perfect yet