[JDEV] Videoconferencing with jabber /Re:[speex-dev]Videoconferencing with speex and jabber

Timothy Carpenter timbeau_hk at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Dec 1 05:42:03 CST 2003


On 1/12/03 11:04 am, "Richard Dobson" <richard at dobson-i.net> wrote:

>>> When there are a few clients with bad connections in the conversation
>>> reliability will probably improve a bit too. Bad connection <-> Good
>>> connection <-> bad connection is generally more reliable than bad
>>> connection <-> bad connection. Escp. when you consider bandwith usage
>>> drops too.
>> 
>> I often audio chat one to one. I am broadband and they are dialup. I am
>> heard perfectly and I hear them barely (delays, dropout, garble,
>> conflation). Even with dialup the uplink is far slower than downlink - all
>> the more reason to have access to at least one fast connection to do most
> of
>> the propagation.
> 
> If you are only chatting one to one tho this wont solve your problems at
> all, because wether it is client server or p2p when chatting one to one the
> same amount of data is transmitted both ways.
> 
Richard,

I agree and I don't think anyone else disputes that either. I was referring
to propagation which is really only appropriate to multiparty conferencing.

Tim

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