Ask HN: Will so many people working at home cause the internet to collapse?
I set up a video chat with a group of friends last night and someone posed the excellent question -- if 50x as many people are streaming video calls all the sudden, is the internet backbone actually capable of handling it? Once the university I work for starts doing all virtual classes, will students be unable to connect due to internet outages in their locality or be unable to understand the lecturer? Our conclusion was "probably if people's video is degraded a bit and people mostly just use voice and text" but I'm curious if HN people at places like Zoom have a better grasp on how scalable video chat is. What best practices would be helpful to make sure that students can access online courses being streamed live, especially ones where students and teaching assistants are having a Q&A based on lecture material? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I set up a video chat with a group of friends last night and someone posed the excellent question -- if 50x as many people are streaming video calls all the sudden, is the internet backbone actually capable of handling it? Once the university I work for starts doing all virtual classes, will students be unable to connect due to internet outages in their locality or be unable to understand the lecturer? Our conclusion was "probably if people's video is degraded a bit and people mostly just use voice and text" but I'm curious if HN people at places like Zoom have a better grasp on how scalable video chat is. What best practices would be helpful to make sure that students can access online courses being streamed live, especially ones where students and teaching assistants are having a Q&A based on lecture material?
I set up a video chat with a group of friends last night and someone posed the excellent question -- if 50x as many people are streaming video calls all the sudden, is the internet backbone actually capable of handling it? Once the university I work for starts doing all virtual classes, will students be unable to connect due to internet outages in their locality or be unable to understand the lecturer? Our conclusion was "probably if people's video is degraded a bit and people mostly just use voice and text" but I'm curious if HN people at places like Zoom have a better grasp on how scalable video chat is. What best practices would be helpful to make sure that students can access online courses being streamed live, especially ones where students and teaching assistants are having a Q&A based on lecture material? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I set up a video chat with a group of friends last night and someone posed the excellent question -- if 50x as many people are streaming video calls all the sudden, is the internet backbone actually capable of handling it? Once the university I work for starts doing all virtual classes, will students be unable to connect due to internet outages in their locality or be unable to understand the lecturer? Our conclusion was "probably if people's video is degraded a bit and people mostly just use voice and text" but I'm curious if HN people at places like Zoom have a better grasp on how scalable video chat is. What best practices would be helpful to make sure that students can access online courses being streamed live, especially ones where students and teaching assistants are having a Q&A based on lecture material?
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