| reply to Trencher
Re: So has anyone noticed the problem of throttling with Skype? I just wanted to add in here my experiences with Voip (the one available through gmail).
I don't like using up my cell phone minutes, so because I have internet, I chose to do all my outgoing calls through the gmail service. It's very convenient, but often has troubles. I wasn't sure if it was the gmail service itself, or possibly my headset. Whenever myself and the party I was speaking with would speak at the same time, everything became extremely staticy. This was rather annoying, but worked alright.
Then we moved to Bell. I've made a few calls with the gmail service and have found that the line is actually quite clear, regardless of who's talking. So it seems Bell doesn't throttle any type of Voip connection..
Unfortunately, I've also found that Bell delays certain types of traffic. The most noticeable one would be streaming video. Various websites (youtube being the main one) would often load within a few seconds of clicking play (the loading times did unfortunately start to get longer in the recent months, however) but on Bell, it quite often takes 10-20 seconds for the video to actually show up, and then another 10-20 seconds to start playing.
So I guess I've traded one annoyance for another..? |
