Re:What Comes After the Roomba?
by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:17AM
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We just switched to all VoIP desk phones at work, over our NBN connections. Same at home. Works flawlessly.
Both providers, Telstra at work, and Internode at home, give VoIP traffic the highest priority QoS, as far as I’m aware. It’s been a while since I worked Internode.
If latency turns out to be a serious issue, then remote control robots would be installed where latency is reliable, or where home owners can get low latency connections.
Most likely latency will improve for the valley over the next few years.
Certainly VoiP is reliable in many other countries. We use a cheap provider at work (virtually no issues), and I used it at home in 2011 and it was rock solid. And NZ is definitely on the edge of the main networks!
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PS: second anecdote: I'm on an island in the Mediterranean at the moment, and VoiP seems very usable.
PPS: what do the gamers in your neighborhood do to resolve ping times? They usually are extremely interested in diagnosing the underlying causes of latency and finding solutions (although you obviously need to find a more engineer type gamer than a script kiddie soothsayer type)