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Why is VOIP so stuff?
Foxscotch:
--- Quote from: Badspot on July 10, 2017, 09:50:06 PM ---ISPs are sabotaging this stuff so people will buy their stuffty dedicated phone service.
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a lot of ISPs actually just do internet phones for home phone service, which is literally voip lol
Pecon:
--- Quote from: Trogtor on July 10, 2017, 10:02:18 PM ---i mean skype and hangouts both use a peer to peer type of connection. skype maybe a little different but either way using a peer to peer connection is complete ass
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Skype is completely centralized now, just like basically everything nowadays. Also no, in theory a p2p call shouldn't be much better or worse than something that runs though a server.
kevin 51l:
skype has gone to absolute stuff due to microsoft tomforgeterry. if you've been using skype for the past few years, you've noticed an unbelievable decline in not only the VOIP itself but the efficiency of the program as a whole. but don't worry they got the new Despicable 3 MINION emojis so there's no reason to complain.
Kearn:
voip is such a mess that there are automated programs that call all unprotected VOIP phones over and over and over to try to use them for free calls and w/e else they're after. even if the phone is set up to prevent calls from going out you still wind up with dozens of missed calls from the spamming
Metario:
the implementations for VoIP are stuff- kompressor butts did a pretty good series of posts talking about building his own video app that goes into alot of the intrinsics (lol @ the use of torque netcode): part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4