swhitney2003
I can't drive 55.
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| reply to jjoshua
Re: voip?
time to revert to the days of dialup and one phone line. No longer can you talk on the phone while surfing the web (or downloading content). Talking on the phone then a family member starts watching videos on youtube?... then your voip phone goes down.
This is actually a concern I didn't think of... I use skype a lot and I really do not want crappy connection because after 15mins I am going to be throttled. |
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Cjaiceman
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join:2004-10-12
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| said by swhitney2003  :This is actually a concern I didn't think of... I use skype a lot and I really do not want crappy connection because after 15mins I am going to be throttled. Unless your VOIP is using 70% (4.6Mbits/sec)of your connection you won't be throttled. VOIP uses very little data, but the latency is what counts. This is true of listening to music and everything like that.
What the throttling accounts to is if your downloading something larger than about 740MB, then you might be throttled. If your downloading something smaller than that then you won't be using your connection long enough to hit the 15 minute mark. And, on top of that, this will really only impact you when there is congestion on the node, if your node is not horribly oversold you won't see this on your connection. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to swhitney2003
You might want to come in side so the sky does not hit you on the head when it falls. |
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swhitney2003
I can't drive 55.
Premium
join:2003-06-13
NH
clubs:
·Skype
·Verizon Wireless B..
·Comcast
| reply to Cjaiceman
said by Cjaiceman :said by swhitney2003 :This is actually a concern I didn't think of... I use skype a lot and I really do not want crappy connection because after 15mins I am going to be throttled. Unless your VOIP is using 70% (4.6Mbits/sec)of your connection you won't be throttled. VOIP uses very little data, but the latency is what counts. This is true of listening to music and everything like that. What the throttling accounts to is if your downloading something larger than about 740MB, then you might be throttled. If your downloading something smaller than that then you won't be using your connection long enough to hit the 15 minute mark. And, on top of that, this will really only impact you when there is congestion on the node, if your node is not horribly oversold you won't see this on your connection. I use Skype for video chat, not pure phone calls. This is what will cause my upstream to be saturated. |
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