[SGVLUG] OT: Throughput speed required for VoIP?

[Jean Chen]

Thanks Tom, I hadn't realized that!

Jean

On 10/10/05, Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 18:09, Jean Chen wrote:
> > Do any of you use voice over IP to make phone calls?  If so, what's a
> > good throughput speed for that?
>
> others have already responded, but I wanted to throw in my two-cents worth
> anyway:  the bandwith needed for "speech" is actually pretty low in
> comparison to what's out there -- even "dialup" can handle it.  I seem to
> recall the first "reflectors" for voice came around the time 19.2k modems
> became popular.  (one of the first was "cu-see-me", which was actually video,
> but had a voice channel as well.  Mind you, most people using this service
> were more interested in the pictures than the sound, so while the protocol
> could handle it, "video" took up so much of the dial-up bandwidth that
> actually speaking was considered bad netiquette]
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