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It is extremely easy test. Are you costrained by latency or bandwidth. If it is latency - to have VOIP you need 200ms round trip top. That is the first lecture
by venomsnake 13y ago
It is extremely easy test. Are you costrained by latency or bandwidth.
If it is latency - to have VOIP you need 200ms round trip top. That is the first lecture in Communication Technology 101.
Video streaming is latency tolerant but bandwidth sensitive. You moderately don't care if a packet gets lost or spikes as long as you have long enough buffer.
So any kind of conversation needs a fast lane. Downloading and streaming don't. But they need bulk.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoThe problem is the only time you actually have latency issues is when there is not enough bandwidth. Almost nothing is so sensitive that it can't stand for packets to be buffered for 25ms. The problematic latency is when you're sufficiently bandwidth constrained that packets are dropped and have to be retransmitted, in which case you can't drop streaming packets either or else over a matter of seconds the client's buffer will shrink into nothing and the video will start stuttering.
- venomsnake 13y agoMy PC has 32 gigabytes of RAM. That is a lot of buffer. Make the buffer minutes or half and hour. Right now it is more convenient for me to torrent at 100Mbit 1080p and just watch than stream.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoThat doesn't do any good for streaming when there isn't enough bandwidth. If the video bitrate is twice as much as the available bandwidth then it would take 30 minutes to fill the buffer in order to watch an hour of uninterrupted video. I want to turn on my TV and watch Netflix, not turn on my TV, come back in 30 minutes, watch one episode of House of Cards, come back in 30 minutes, etc.
- pjc50 13y agoIt's not an easy test when looking at the packet. If you're relying on people to label their packets appropriately, they will lie if doing so gets them what they want.