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Re:Protocol Wars by londons_explore on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:17PM (#35906083)
Video conferencing has latency in the 300ms - 1000ms range[1]. The actual network component of that is pretty small. And video conferencing software already has logic for time stretching/compression to handle variable latency - typically they'll speed up or slow down gaps between words and sentences.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/24/12884

Re:Protocol Wars by crazygringo on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:56PM (#35907599)
Actually no -- things like FaceTime are more like 90 ms, while other common products like Zoom and Meet are around 150-200. These are minimums with somebody in your own city. This is actually from my own testing in the past, where FaceTime was the clear winner, since Apple cares a lot about latency and is custom written for its own hardware.

But networks absolutely can add major latency, have you never had a slow Zoom call? It's because of congestion building up and radio interference. That's what leads to things like 1,000 ms latency, which makes back and forth conversation very difficult. Perceptible latency issues are always because of the network.

And yes products do time stretching but that's also what people often call glitches because it's very weird.