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If your in a busy wifi environment, such as a hotel, apartment/townhouse complex or similar, all of the other wifi traffic can significantly degrade the connection. Not everyone lives in a suburban house with only 3 wifi networks on their laptop and an ability to completely control their environment.

Video conferencing is really sensitive to congestion, latency and packet loss, not so much throughput. Missing a word here and there can make it fairly frustrating, and with wifi you are bound to have that happen a few times an hour even with good wifi connections on both sides.




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