shell (cell phone rant)

[stephen barncard]

To be fair, Skype's bandwidth (audio wise) sounds a lot better than 3k.
That's a value like the horrible cellphone audio bandwidth (which is far
worse than POTS). Skype is  MUCH better sounding than either.
Most of the communication companies don't give a hoot about clarity or
quality of the conversation as long as it gets there and people put up with
it. The state of telephone communications audio is at an all-time low. How
many times have you had to say "WHat?" when using a cellphone?  This just
didn't happen with the old wired phones nearly as much. I hate the frickin'
cellphone and use it every day. It's probably slowly killing me.

The wired phones would NEVER drop a call, the biggest insult of all. Usually
it's not a signal strength issue at all; most of the time users get randomly
booted and cut off because the bandwidth narrows from the traffic load.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2010/1/18 Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>

> stephen-
>
> Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:27:51 PM, you wrote:
>
> > By the way, Skype uses UDP
>
> Yes, but a voice stream has typically a 3kHz bandwidth and dropped
> packets don't make much of a difference.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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