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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by driverdan on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:40AM (#13995717)
> I've noticed latency get worse and worse on the Internet since I started using it in the 90s and nobody seems to talk about it.

You're remembering incorrectly then. Dialup latency was in the range of hundreds of ms. Early high speed internet access also had higher latency than modern connections.

If you have latency problems it's likely a problem with your hardware.

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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by torrent-of-ions on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:45AM (#13995784)
I don't remember dialup latency. I only remember it having low bandwidth. I'm talking about ADSL latency in the 90s.
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by moomin on Thursday March 30, 2017 @11:31AM (#13996227)
Latency for a 56k modem was 180ms. Latency for a voice call on the same line was _much_ smaller. AFAICT, latency from my games console television to my TV is much higher...
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by NoGravitas on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:50PM (#13997902)
300ms was not unusual on a 56k modem, if my memory serves.
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by moomin on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:57PM (#13997963)
180ms is what I got on WirePlay. The number is burnt into my brain. If the machine wasn't co-located, I can envisage it being a lot higher.
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by torrent-of-ions on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:10AM (#14042641)
Yes, I believe you, I meant I don't remember what the latency was.
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by alphapapa on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:16PM (#13999781)
When I accessed the Internet over a "56k" modem connection, my network latency was less than 100 ms, so how could that be possible?
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Re:Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered by jethro_tell on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:52PM (#13997442)
Cable tends to have a higher latency than aDSL. I don't know if that's the tech or just over-subscription on cables part. The trade off is in the bandwidth allowed so people mostly gave up that feature in exchange for enough bandwidth to do other stuff.
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