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Re: [rtcweb] Pictures of congestion control on the Internet - which is more realistic?

Sergio Garcia Murillo <sergio.garcia.murillo@gmail.com> Fri, 25 April 2014 11:54 UTC

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El 23/04/2014 17:46, Stephan Wenger escribió:
> In both cases, the typical reaction of an endpoint is to expose the 
> user to crappy quality, until the user hangs up.  Sometimes, slightly 
> smarter implementations hang up themselves if the packet loss rate 
> becomes excessive.I would suggest not to paint a rosier picture in the 
> draft than what is warranted based on real-world observations.
>
>     Based on this, most UDP endpoints do not deal well with
>     congestion. Ideally this should change to support better bandwidth
>     management. Futhermore, reliably transmitting real time media over
>     public internet would also require changes to biffer management
>     algorithms in routers, which will, in turn, affect congestion
>     handling strategies in the end points.
>

+1, but also from my real life experience, the most problems I am having 
with quality are related to bad Wifi coverage or cheap/crappy XDSL 
routers/cable modems. Almost 100% of problems with quality I had found 
were solved just by plugging the ethernet cable.

Best regards
Sergio

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