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by biokoda 3404 days ago
> When you're doing voip you're doing so over UDP because TCP has far too much latency to be agreeable,

Lots of wifis, corporate especially block all UDP traffic. Sometimes they even block all non http/https traffic. Apps like Skype or Biocoded will find a way to route the call, but that can sometimes mean it has to go over https!