On 7 June 2012 12:42, Matthew Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > from what you say, that by default VoIP gets a "good deal" out of the > available bandwidth? > > > > from what you say, it sounds like you have an axe to grind? > > > > Not at all; > > Cool. I'm possibly a little over-sensitive to intentions and motivations > when it comes to bandwidth management discussions. > > > I was just thinking last night about VoIP and what would be the knock-on > effects if lots of people started using VoIP - say a few million. > > Well, how many users do you think Skype have?
My understanding is that they have 300m concurrent users, globally, at any one time. I've no idea how much of that is UK traffic. > > I was also thinking about whether prioritising this kind of traffic on a > consumer ISP, by default, would be advantageous or even necessary. > > Advantageous at bottleneck links, if it can be reliably identified. Packet > length sounds like a reasonably neutral discriminator to me. That sounds very positive, and certainly worth thinking about; thanks.
