Roy Britten wrote:
You can't blame them really, can you? The internet brings POTS to its knees ( at least in Europe, can't comment on local history ), so an alternative is presented. Then now everyone wants to use POTS over the internet!From http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050317.html
And there are other dirty tricks available to broadband ISPs. Telecom New Zealand, for example, is reportedly planning to alter TCP packet interleaving to discourage VoIP. By bunching all voice packets in the first half of each second, half a second of dead air would be added to every conversation, changing latency in a way that would drive grandmothers everywhere back to their old phone companies. This is because phone conversations happen effectively in real time and so are very sensitive to problems of latency. Where one-way video and audio can use buffering to overcome almost any interleaving issue, it is a deal-breaker for voice.
Anyone heard anything about this?
Roy.
All things considered, it's the most unsuitable meduim for streaming anything - that's not what it was designed for.
Now, all you have to do is to get telecom to let me phone the uk for 3 cents a minute, and then all will be well!
Steve
