Morning, fridge, microwave, tune-ups

Speaking to you this morning was very good.

It is really good talking to you, despite how sad this all is.

Jesus is eating herself out, fervently.

I have to go look at one of my mechanics and talk winter rabbit.

On seeing you:

Our uploads speeds with DSL were both limited to 128 kbps. This limited the frame rate to 15 fps and it seemed like the audio quality dropped before the video. When we both had very strong airport signals the connection was good in both audio and video and it had about 80 kbps transfer rate per iChat.

I have since upgraded my DSL service to 256 kbps upload. I now transfer at 20 fps and my brother is still at 15 fps. My bit rate is now around 150 kbps (more bandwidth for video and maybe less compression). My brother says that my video quality has improved. However, I have noticed more audio feedback. The audio filtering is less successful.

When we have problems with the audio and video a lot of the deterioration is caused by the Airports. When the audio signal breaks up the bps reported in the monitor panel in iChat actually increases. The problems with airport is hard to believe since the bandwidth of 80 kbps is well within its capabilities, however there must be enough lost packets to cause a problem because the quality of the connection really does depend on the signal strength of the Airports.

Faster is better

My connection has averaged 2139/532 kbit over the past 80 days. (down/up kbps)