On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:19:25PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > VoIP over FW works ok (latency is negligible). I set it up for someone > last week.
what you should have said there is that VOIP over FW *can* work OK. when the wifi gets congested, though, congestion-related latency will cause it to for VOIP even worse than it sucks for everything else....and that is, of course, the problem with wireless compared to fibre or even copper - it just doesn't scale to the number of users that a national broadband network is going to have. it's fine for up to a few dozens of users, but not for hundreds or thousands within range of the wifi access point....and IIRC, NBN wifi is using the same unlicensed spectrum as home/office wifi (and garage door openers and microwaves and wireless TV extenders etc etc etc) so it will be congested right from the start. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link