Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.
Comment on Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Probably a bad idea to congest the limited bandwidth of Tor with voice chat.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How does a regular person donate bandwidth?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
By partaking in it.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plain speech can be compressed pretty well. I’m not an expert by any means, but I suspect latency would be the bigger issue.
Used_Gate@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Latency is a huge issue, but it goes away with the PTT model. I tried full duplex on initial prototyping but it was trash.
PTT forces solves this by simply forcing the listen, digest, then respond. You can expect about 2-3 seconds of delay from when you release the ptt, to when the other side hears it.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That makes sense. Thanks, I was still half asleep and didn’t register the PTT.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Yeah, unless they use specific nodes given by the community, i think it’s a bad idea
Used_Gate@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The bandwidth is low by design. I’ve excluded files and images to keep it down as well. You could talk 24/7 only use MBs.
If we want Tor to grow we need useful applications useful for everyone. I doubt this will be widely adopted.
I’ve contributed a large amount of bandwidth to the network so why can’t I use some?