[sneak]

Yeah but how often are two people connected by networks that maintain <1% PL and low jitter for the entirety of a length of a call?

I'm thinking of just shipping 79xxs to my close friends and telling them to plug them directly into their routers, but even that will go to shit around 20:00 local as their residential networks overload.

[walrus01]

The weakest link is absolutely the residential class last mile contended access networks. I've regularly seen 0.00% packet loss for weeks at a time on business class connections between two points in the continental US, but when one end is slightly flaky, all bets are off.