Comparison of zoom and jitsi request

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 00:59, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> Without challenging your perception, I wonder whether it would be worth
> you experimenting, again, and, doing what you have done with Linux Mint;
> reviewing (and comparing with rival software) the latest versions - in
> case the problems that you earlier encountered, have been overcome; and,
> if they have not been overcome, I believe that that, in itself, is
> sufficiently noteworthy to include in updated reviews and comparisons...
>
> Also, possibly, comparing across different web browser (and, possibly,
> different desktop environment, and, distribution(?) ) platforms; does
> jitsi perform better on the Firefox that in Linux Mint, or in Ubuntu, or
> in Debian (etc, etc, etc)?
>
> :)

I'd need some news to report, ideally, to sell the idea to my editor...

> Inadequate bandwidth - "1/2 gigabit connection" ? - That sounds like the
> total bandwidth for Australia...

:-D

I had 512Gb/s at home in Prague, for about GBP 30/month.

Here in the Isle of Man, I have 100Mb/s fibre to the premises, and
it's twice that much. I could get to up to 1Gb/s but basically each
time I double the speed, it adds about 25% or something to the price.
½ gig would cost me about £150 a month, and a gig, £200 a month. It's
not worth it.

I had 100Gb FTTH in London a decade ago, and while it was good at
first, over the next couple of years, the contention went up so much
it was almost unusable at peak times... but not as bad as you
describe. It did sometimes go down to the kb/s range, though.

> I get up to 6-8MB/s, on a 4G cellphone network connection access,
> dropping down to about 100B/s, on occasion, depending on hosting servers
> and nodes along the way, and, those speeds are far better than I got
> from the official Australian "No B****y Network" "broadband" landline
> access that was imposed by the Australian feral parliament (which gave
> data transmission speeds under 10B/s, if and when the network was
> operating - we were explicitly told that we could not use any telephone
> network in Australia, to make emergency calls, due to the unreliability
> that was imposed). Sometimes, in Australia, the best data transfer
> speed, is around as it was for "dialup" modem access - 33KB/s. But,
> then, in a country where the governments favour burning fossil fuels
> over clean energy, and new and expanded coal mines over photovoltaic
> electricity generation, and, NOT having emissions regulations for motor
> vehicles (making us as the same level as Putinland), it is not
> surprising that we are so far behind the rest of the world (like
> Putinland). Maybe, one day, Australia will progress to the twentieth
> century, and, adapt to electricity and clean energy, and digital
> communications. And, maybe, one day, we will have working health and
> education systems.

Oh boy.

Well, could be worse. Could be America!

I had a colleague in the States in my last role, who lived under 100km
from Microsoft HQ. She used satellite broadband as there was no
coverage in her area except POTS dial-up.

As it happens, last night, I went for a few beers with a friend of
mine I've not seen since the 20th century, who lives a bit outside
Brisbane now. Yes, some of the problems he described sounded bad, but
overall, it sounded like a good life. Apart from the bushfire risk and
so on...

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