[SGVLUG] OT: Throughput speed required for VoIP?

[Tom Emerson]

On Friday 07 October 2005 18:09, Jean Chen wrote:
> Do any of you use voice over IP to make phone calls?  If so, what's a
> good throughput speed for that? 

others have already responded, but I wanted to throw in my two-cents worth 
anyway:  the bandwith needed for "speech" is actually pretty low in 
comparison to what's out there -- even "dialup" can handle it.  I seem to 
recall the first "reflectors" for voice came around the time 19.2k modems 
became popular.  (one of the first was "cu-see-me", which was actually video, 
but had a voice channel as well.  Mind you, most people using this service 
were more interested in the pictures than the sound, so while the protocol 
could handle it, "video" took up so much of the dial-up bandwidth that 
actually speaking was considered bad netiquette]

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