Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Bandwidth limitations in GM

[Miguel Rodríguez <migrax terra es>]

El jue, 17-06-2004 a las 16:19, +0200, Damien Sandras escribió:
> that's an interesting idea, but hardly feasible I think. OpenH323 has
> bandwidth limitation integrated but the video problem was arleady
> discussed several times by Craig and me.
> 
> I think what Vasilis mean would be that GM would ask :
> - what's your upload?
> and it would calculate from that setting what video bandwidth is
> available, the computation would be based on the highest bandwidth
> codec, G.711.
> 
> However, I think the current approach (Cable, DSL, modem, LAN) is
> easier
> for average users who do not necessarily know their upload bandwidth,
> and power users will be able to change the available video bandwidth
> for
> upload by themselves.
> 
> Current Cable/DSL settings are based on a 128kbits upload (16kbytes),
> which leads to a 10 kbytes/s video bandwidth.
> 
> People with more upload can increase that settings if they want to.

Agreed.