On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:41:21 +0200, Ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have a very valid point. However these issues are not unique to P2P chat. This begs the question, how do current chat clients (jabber or otherwise) manage P2P audio/video transmission? If it can be done for audio/video, it can be done for text.
Very poorly. I know only one exception to this, and that is Skype, which I'd call reasonable since it least it always works (often with degraded quality, but that's better than nothing). Skype isn't completly p2p though. And that's only for audio I believe.
It's not entirely the fault of the clients themselves either.. there's a lot of technology out there that's very useful when it works, but has the opposite effect when it doesn't (like uPnP).
I haven't found the perfect client/server combination yet either for that matter, but Jabber can sporadically be seen moving towards that goal.
