“consumer ISPs generally don't have great routes between them” is the way more important part. An eyeball network will generally have considerably more, and co

“consumer ISPs generally don't have great routes between them” is the way more important part. An eyeball network will generally have considerably more, and considerably higher bandwidth, peering relationships with content provider networks than with other eyeball networks. At AVStack we experimented quite a bit with P2P multiparty video calls, it’s certainly possible but as you scale up the number of participants there’s huge variance in quality depending on the combination of ISPs used by the participants, the time of day, network conditions etc.