On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:34:13PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:05:09 +0300 > "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Dotan, > > Ah, I said "for masochists" because it's going to be painfully slow over > a DU account. Skype has (fairly) high bandwidth requirements and > therefore the modem may not be able to cope. The result being dropped > packets, and consequently, the inability to understand what's being > said.
The codec Skype uses marginally fits within the bandwidth of a modem connection. Likewise will speex. Modem connections also have a relatively high latency. I seem to recal that the hop of a modem has a delay of some 100ms. This is something you might even notice. But latency isn't that a problem with VoIP connections. A worse problem with VoIP, that tends to accompany latency, is jitter: how much different packets have different time. An ideal VoIP stream would have the exact latency and thus no cracks. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
