There is likely to be a high demand for Internet access over the next
few months due to COVID19. So I suggest that video products be set to
limit bandwidth use by default. Video streaming and conference tools
adjust to the bandwidth available, but try to use *all* that bandwidth.
This makes them poor online citizens, like someone who fills their
shopping trolley with toilet paper, if you let them. ;-)
On Thursday I took part in a webinar (video conference) on "COVID-19 and
the Household/Commercial Solar and Battery Storage Market", hosted by
the Smart Energy Council. I suggest other industry bodies and
professional societies follow this example.
There were only a few brief dropouts in the audio (fewer than on ABC
Radio National that morning). This was with Zoom, which is not my
favorite product, as there is no way for participants to set the audio
or video quality to reduce bandwidth. But it is possible to reduce data
use to around 220 to 300 kbps by making the video window smaller.
It would be good if the video products, such as Zoom, used a low
bandwidth mode with a small video window, by default.
More at:
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2020/03/video-conference-on-covid-19-and.html
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