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Audio quality is always worse than conference calls in the 80s and 90s (until people started using cell phones.)

• wildzzz 4y ago
  I used to dread conference calls whenever most people were on their cellphones, me included. Quality was dog shit. If everyone was using a deskphone, quality was better but you could easily tell you were still on a phone call. Whatever system we call into can't make any use of the high quality bandwidth you'd get from internal deskphone calls or between two iPhones using the internet to do voice calls. Work has been giving out USB headsets lately so people can actually talk through the conferencing software on their laptop rather than using a dial-in number. The improvement in voice clarity is enormous and I will never go back to phoning into meetings. I've been encouraging my coworkers to do the same. We don't have webcams on our work PCs so voice or chat is the only option.
  • robonerd 4y ago
    The problem with all webchat, regardless of microphone quality, is the erratic latency and frequent hiccups every time somebody's neighbor microwaves a burrito. Consistent latency is generally tolerable if kept to a reasonable minimum, but erratic latency is incredibly fatiguing for me to listen to.