Re: [Linphone-users] video troubles: sip number to test video?

[Alastair Johnson]

On Thursday 10 March 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:48:57 +0100, Simon Morlat
> 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I analyzed the log and I noticed two things:
> > 
> > - you set an upload bandwidth limit to 128kb/s (kilo bits per seconds),
> > which corresponds to the 15KB (kilo bytes) you are observing
> 
> Silly me, why didn't I think of that?! :)
> 
> Seriously though, wouldn't it be better to have the bandwidth control
> limits specified in kilo bytes instead of the current kilo bits? This
> would avoid confusing naive users such as myself. Much of what happens on
> a computer or on the internet is in kilobytes nowadays (downloads in a web
> browser, file sizes in a file manager, etc.), so I would guess that your
> average John Doe would be happier with defining settings in kilobytes. I
> for one have never quite made a difference between bits and bytes, well,
> up until now. :)

I don't think I've ever used an application that uses byte rates for codecs, 
so linphone being the only one would be mighty confusing! 3G, Cable and ADSL 
speeds are all advertised as bit rates too, at least here in the UK.