Google Video and Voice Chat - More Defective

As all know Google has introduced the Video chat recently which has been the talk of the town. Its not that Google is the first one to bring it. Yahoo and many others have ventured it well before years. But if Google has brought up something then its special these days.


Me and my friend yesterday night had plans to see the performance of this newly introduced Google Video Chat. Both of us have high speed broadband connection. As part of the process we downloaded the plugin from google for the video chat. All set to test it.

Initially it started well with video streaming happening with just a dealy of a second. We made sure that the bandwidth is not been used by anyothe resources. We stopped all the other uploading and downloading process. We expected a surpirse but there was a deep shock. The video streaming started to drop drastically and we started to see a lot of delay and finally almost viewing a still picture.

When we looked at the netmeter the upload and download bandwith consumed by this Google Chat was enormous. The download was around 25.4 kiB/s and upload was 40.9KiB/s.



The Google video chat was consuming lot of bandwith but still was not streaming properly. We were cast down totally with the Google Video chat. For sometime we felt yahoo and other who pioneered it had a better technology as it was streaming with a delay of 2 to 3 seconds.

We did have the voice chat of google along with the Video chat and thought may be the Voice chat is taking too much bandwith. So later we discontinued the video chat and did just voice chat. Netmeter was showing upload 1.1 KiB/s and download as 4.9KiB/s.



From the above two measurements its understood that Google Video chat consumes more bandwidth but a pathetic video streaming.

Finally dismayed we had to end the video chat. I guess Google has to work more on this to take care of the video streaming as that is all video chat is all about.

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