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 2 days ago
Probably a bad idea to congest the limited bandwidth of Tor with voice chat.
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How does a regular person donate bandwidth?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
By partaking in it.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 days ago
Yeah, unless they use specific nodes given by the community, i think it’s a bad idea
Used_Gate@piefed.social 2 days 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?