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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by amaks on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:22AM (#12545619)
What's the latency of your connection? You can get 4 Mbps throughput (which is not a lot by itself, BTW), but the latency may be too high for a video chat.
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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by piyush_soni on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:06AM (#12546559)
Yes, 4Mbps is not a lot, but since Skype shows something, Duo is effectively worse for me. I didn't measure the latency of my parents' connection. Will have to do it next time I'm there.
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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by AstralStorm on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:24AM (#12546071)
People can live with a few seconds of latency on GSM. Chat is mostly half-duplex.

It is usually lack of bandwidth or major packet loss that cause trouble.

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