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Comment by Aurornis

8 hours ago

Zoom works in 500kbps environments in my experience.

You won't be in crispy 720p or 1080p, but you can still talk to other people.

I had a shitty DSL line just a couple years ago before Starlink. Maybe 700KBps if I was lucky. Both me and my partner could remotely work on it, run zoom calls at the same time. That said, it is nice to have more bandwidth, but people do vastly overestimate how much they really need.

but you can still talk to other people

As should be the case, as GSM half-rate works at 5.6kbps (700 bytes per second) and gives intelligible speech.