On 08/31/15 21:39, Craig Sanders wrote: > 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.
I'm in rural Queensland. Fibre is not an option. > it's fine for up to a few dozens of users, but not for hundreds or > thousands within range of the wifi access point.... Currently 281 subscribers on the tower: http://www.mynbn.info/rollout/4BBE-51-10-STHB I don't think there will be many more (not that many people live out here). -andyf _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
