[AusNOG] Katter backs Coalition - Windsor backs Gillard

[Paul Brooks]

  On 7/09/2010 8:55 PM, Bevan Slattery wrote:
>
> From: http://www.aceinfo.net.au/images/PDF/ACE%20VRI%20Guide.pdf
>
> Bandwidth recommendation
> Upload: 512Kbps is recommended to give the best quality picture.
> Download: 512Kbps is also recommended to receive the best quality
> picture of the
> interpreter.
>
> 512Kbps symmetrical for "best quality picture".
>

Yes, thats what the document says Bevan. Its a pragmatic compromise between whats true 
- 2 -5 Mbps symmetric works a whole pile better - and whats affordable and available. 
It gives a signal to people with generally low incomes that entry-level 128 and 256 
kbps upstream is not sufficient, but stops short of turning a significant number of 
people off who either can't get 1Mbps+ DSL from many provider, or who could get it but 
can't afford it, and might spend their milk money in a quest for it.

The word on the street from people that are using it - and I am working with some of 
them - is that 512kbps doesn't provide the fluency they need. And if they are in the 
middle of a conversation when someone else in the house sends a largeish email or 
uploads some photos to PIcasa, its toast.

Grahame asked what sort of applications required HD video conferencing at home. This 
is an answer to that question.

P.

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