3 ms·

No thank you. Just give me even more reliable and even faster transmission. I don't really want machines to make best effort guesses what is happening at the ot

No thank you. Just give me even more reliable and even faster transmission. I don't really want machines to make best effort guesses what is happening at the other end of the communication pipeline, because the connection is now so bad compared to previous technologies that it has to. The rest can be done by software / hardware on top of that, if one wishes so, I don't see why that has to be integrated into the communication pipeline itself.

BobbyJo 5y ago
100%. If I want missing packets to be inferred, I'd rather it happen on hardware I control than otherwise.
colejohnson66 5y ago
Right? If the video is lagging because there's not enough bandwidth, don't drop packets for me; let my video software choose a different bitrate. I don't want my ISP messing with my packets.
nine_k 5y ago
This. My wish list: * Shorter delays for voice traffic, closer to the copper wire experience from 30 years old. At least for local calls. * Better voice quality throughout. We have great codecs and lots of bandwidth, we can talk at hi-fi quality. I'm fine with the speeds 4G gives me.
pmontra 5y ago
Sometimes is just impossible (physical laws or limitations of the current technology). I can't have 40 ms ping time with a game server on the other side of the world no matter what and my 4G connection slows down when it snows. Ok, I should pay somebody a relatively huge sum to lay a fiber optic cable to my home :-) An AI to fill in the blank of a video call (degenerate case: a still picture) is OK for me. Sending me a summary instead of a book, a trailer instead of a movie does not. By the way, AIs were filling in the blank of video calls when bandwidth got low in a Fire upon the Deep. The calls were between far away spaceships, probably very superluminal transmissions because of how physics work in that book.

3 ms·

No thank you. Just give me even more reliable and even faster transmission. I don't really want machines to make best effort guesses what is happening at the ot

by auggierose 5y ago

BobbyJo 5y ago
100%. If I want missing packets to be inferred, I'd rather it happen on hardware I control than otherwise.
colejohnson66 5y ago
Right? If the video is lagging because there's not enough bandwidth, don't drop packets for me; let my video software choose a different bitrate. I don't want my ISP messing with my packets.
nine_k 5y ago
This. My wish list: * Shorter delays for voice traffic, closer to the copper wire experience from 30 years old. At least for local calls. * Better voice quality throughout. We have great codecs and lots of bandwidth, we can talk at hi-fi quality. I'm fine with the speeds 4G gives me.
pmontra 5y ago
Sometimes is just impossible (physical laws or limitations of the current technology). I can't have 40 ms ping time with a game server on the other side of the world no matter what and my 4G connection slows down when it snows. Ok, I should pay somebody a relatively huge sum to lay a fiber optic cable to my home :-) An AI to fill in the blank of a video call (degenerate case: a still picture) is OK for me. Sending me a summary instead of a book, a trailer instead of a movie does not. By the way, AIs were filling in the blank of video calls when bandwidth got low in a Fire upon the Deep. The calls were between far away spaceships, probably very superluminal transmissions because of how physics work in that book.