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by jacobush 2560 days ago
You'd be surprised - audio is very slow. Telephone works because we are trained to compensate and also because there are no visual cues. (Weird thing - the old analog lines were much faster than our cell phones of today.)
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I can recall using the Hack to force international calls over cable instead of satellite (to reduce latency) when I used to do a lot of international liaison for BT.