Neither Spotify nor Skype use peer to peer functionality any more.
Are there any consumer apps that still leverage P2P designs? Has bandwidth just become so cheap that it's unnecessary?
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I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses!
I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.
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Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI.
I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?
Amazon defining a low power mesh protocol that shares bandwidth between neighbours:
