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Even if you have a 1.5Mb/s connection you should hear crystal clear audio.

FemmeAndroid 5y ago
I wonder how much of this has to do with the speed of a connection and how much has to do with Jitter? Especially on wifi, Jitter can become a huge barrier to overcome, even if the speed of your connection is extremely high.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  I wish other statistics about connections were more public, since there is much more to a connection than just bandwidth.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    With that kind of information publicly available, they'd have a hard time getting people to join the network!
    - lotsofpulp 5y ago
      Most people don’t even have an option at home in the US, but it would make it harder for them to lobby politicians by not being able to claim everything is fine. For home, you chose fiber if you’re lucky to have fiber. Most people only have access to coaxial cable internet. If you’re unlucky, you do not even have that. For mobile, you have Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile so it is not so bad there.
dylan604 5y ago
Wow, take things litteral much? The numbers were just used to demonstrate, and not meant for actual comparisons. If the other party has a lower bandwidth than you, you are limited to that lower bandwidth. Fat pipe connected to little pipe means fat pipe can only move little pipe's worth of volume. If the other party has kids that are playing games, streaming youtube, listening to music, downloading torrents, etc, their bandwidth is fractioned too. If no QOS is enabled for ensuring mom&dad's phone calls are good before little Timmy's Fornite and little Suzzie's TikTok videos, then mom&dad can get the short end of the stick. Let's also not forget those IoT devices and Ring doorbells, and blah blah all cutting into that available bandwidth. People forget and take for granted how many things in their homes feed on that bandwidth Yes, with 1.5Mbps one should hear crystal clear audio, but you have no idea how much bandwidth is actually being used.
- ubercow13 5y ago
  GP said that both they and the other participant had faster than 25Mbps connections…

I wonder how much of this has to do with the speed of a connection and how much has to do with Jitter? Especially on wifi, Jitter can become a huge barrier to overcome, even if the speed of your connection is extremely high.

lotsofpulp 5y ago
I wish other statistics about connections were more public, since there is much more to a connection than just bandwidth.
- dylan604 5y ago
  With that kind of information publicly available, they'd have a hard time getting people to join the network!
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    Most people don’t even have an option at home in the US, but it would make it harder for them to lobby politicians by not being able to claim everything is fine. For home, you chose fiber if you’re lucky to have fiber. Most people only have access to coaxial cable internet. If you’re unlucky, you do not even have that. For mobile, you have Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile so it is not so bad there.

dylan604 5y ago

Wow, take things litteral much? The numbers were just used to demonstrate, and not meant for actual comparisons. If the other party has a lower bandwidth than you, you are limited to that lower bandwidth. Fat pipe connected to little pipe means fat pipe can only move little pipe's worth of volume. If the other party has kids that are playing games, streaming youtube, listening to music, downloading torrents, etc, their bandwidth is fractioned too. If no QOS is enabled for ensuring mom&dad's phone calls are good before little Timmy's Fornite and little Suzzie's TikTok videos, then mom&dad can get the short end of the stick. Let's also not forget those IoT devices and Ring doorbells, and blah blah all cutting into that available bandwidth. People forget and take for granted how many things in their homes feed on that bandwidth Yes, with 1.5Mbps one should hear crystal clear audio, but you have no idea how much bandwidth is actually being used.

ubercow13 5y ago
GP said that both they and the other participant had faster than 25Mbps connections…