[e2e] Skype and congestion collapse.

[Scott W Brim]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 04:22:36PM -0300, Alexandre L. Grojsgold allegedly wrote:
> Well, one must have in mind that at the end of a skype voice connection 
> ther is as human being that, in case of congestion and excessive packet 
> loss will simply hang up the call - or even be so unhappy that he will 
> never try calling thru Skype again.

When I was playing with low bandwidth video we backed off the transmit
rate only so far -- below a certain point it wasn't worthwhile, so we
stayed at our minimum and accepted whatever happened.