[jagger27]

When Discord first launched and my usual TeamSpeak friends moved over there I was super annoyed by the extra latency. How a group of fairly serious gamers who otherwise complained about less lag in any other circumstance shrugged it off, I'm not sure.

More recently, I was surprised by low latency was between two Asterisk servers in the same city on different ISPs. It was a very adhoc setup with a cheap EOL Cisco IP phone on either end connected to an Asterisk SIP server on the local network. I'm so used to laggy voice chat that it actually caught me off guard how nice it was once I actually got it to work. Besides being a total nightmare to configure.

I struggle enough in person to find the right time to talk without interrupting, and >100ms of Discord latency makes it that much worse for me. I hope something peer-to-peer like this catches on for remote teams. I could really benefit from it. I don't think I would mind if a screen share lagged behind the speaker's voice. I'm sure Zoom already does that though.

[WolfRazu]

You should be getting considerably less latency than that. Is the Discord server perhaps set to the wrong region?

[jagger27]

The server I normally talk on is on US East, which is as close as I can get in Canada.

To be clear, I don’t have hard numbers on the actual voice-to-ear lag I’m experiencing, and of course it depends about a dozen different factors. I just know that it could feel better.