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Old 02-15-2011, 09:25 PM   #19
sclitheroe
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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire View Post
On a UDP datastream, it's immediately service impacting.
True, but you can do a small amount of buffering to compensate, otherwise VoIP would be basically unusable on most networks.

Some days it amazes me that any of this networking stuff works at all, even though I know better. For all its complexity, diversity, warts, and hacks at the low level, IP networking is pretty amazingly good.
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