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Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools by toast0 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:49PM (#25785406)
My DSL line gives me a 20 ms roundtrip to the first hop. My only choices at this address are DSL, LTE (latency seems highly variable, and much more expensive than DSL), or paying at least $50k to get muni fiber installed. So latency will always be an issue here.

Well, I could probably get some form of POTS either analog or ISDN/T1

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Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools by nullc on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:40PM (#25796119)
DSL is pretty much the worst of the wireline services as far as latency goes. Even some of the wireless technologies are better.

If you use sonic, at least in some areas they have a setting where you can turn down the level of forward error correction and get lower latency in exchange for somewhat higher packet loss.

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