Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools
by telesilla on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:57PM
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This shows actual network latency between regions.
Even with the state of the art equipment, transcontinental music making will always exclude the kinds of music that most of us play while in the same room together.
Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools
by Retric on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:12PM
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I was specifically mentioning 1,000km as the metric.
AWS latency isn’t great between regions. Looking on some other sites you can see London to NYC is 70ms, but that’s also 5,500km which is far behind the 1,000km mentioned. Ex: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/London
70ms /5.5 = 12.7 ms seconds round trip. The speed of sound is only 1,125 ft/s, and half that for round trips so 1,000km over fiber is the equivalent of ~7.14 feet apart in the same room plus whatever latency your personal computer and software adds.
The real problem is computer audio isn’t designed for low latency. Generally, as long as video and audio are reasonably synchronized nobody notices, but latency as rarely a consideration on it’s own.