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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by rightbyte on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:48AM (#27651994)
With P2P sound there is no need for expensive slow servers serving free tier users. Scalable! But companies have a hard time letting go of control and 'value add'.
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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by kevincox on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:53PM (#27653110)
For some markets P2P is not acceptable. For example in "gaming" markets people will DoS any IP they see so hiding your IP behind a relay service like Discord is essential.
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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by rightbyte on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:03PM (#27653194)
Sure but it should not be a problem for friends or teams.

I use Steam voice chat to talk to my brother and I find it by far the best one. Low latency and no filter BS. I don't think it is P2P though.

I and my friends used Ventrilo earlier and the level of QoS you get from hosting on a low load computer with like 4ms ping to each node is insane compared to modern alternatives ...

For a two way call Ventrilo is essentially P2P.

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