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		yomly on Feb 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home ... From experience WebRTC starts to fall down in rooms of more than 8 people for video chat. Meanwhile Zoom and Discord (who use servers) can achieve much greater so YMMV That said p2p definitely has its advantages

dana321 on Feb 3, 2020 [–]

Its just a case of p2p with people running servers (like bitcoint does) and differentiating between the two based on a bandwidth test.

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