Re: [9front] Enabling a service

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

> its not that modern latency is so high

it is though, at least in my experience. horrible DSL connections with
time interleaving error correction mechanisms, multiple hops of
wireless protocols with by design high collision rates, brute-force
randomized modulation with resulting packet loss, high interference,
cross-talk, multiple layers of unsynchronised retransmission
mechanisms to work around all those issues, optimizations for
high-throughput, unflexible minimum packet sizes with outbound buffers
causing transmission delays (again for throughput optimization),
optimizations to reduce packet rates (packet coalescing),
buffer-bloat, horrible routing policies, lawful interception resulting
in everything being routed through a central point that seemed
convenient to the NSA.
it was not like this when i was still on dial-up.
i see more and more places that have perfect end-user experience to
consume netflix, youtube and advertisement, but never try to have a
simple voip call over that line, it just doesn't work. packet loss,
super high multi-seconds delays, huge jitter...
the internet was an error.