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I am currently living in Bangkok Thailand and the internet connection from here to the U.S. is quite slow.  A 2Mb/512Kb connection on average gets me about 35kB/sec.  I need video conference to the U.S. I do not know if a two way video connection requires simultaneous upload/download capabilities using seperate pairs of wires for transmit receive or if it is a shared connection using a single pair of wires for transmit/receive.  IN OTHER WORDS... should I look for a ISP with a high upload and download speed (2Mb/2Mb) or the fastest possible download speed (4Mb/512Kb)? 
Anybody know? Please help!!!!

tony evans welcome to the forum.

if your doing like a 1 on 1 video conversation 35kB/s upload would be plenty. the thing that would hurt you is the latency and packet Loss. what are your ping times to the US like?

goto a command promt and type in the following

ping testmy.net

you will get a bunch of numbers and it will give you an average, let us have the average.

you may also want to ping yahoo.com and again, post the average, it will show you if your dropping packets.

you will see something like this...

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
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C:\Users\deano>ping testmy.net

Pinging testmy.net [74.54.226.166] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.54.226.166: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.54.226.166: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.54.226.166: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.54.226.166: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 74.54.226.166:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 81ms, Maximum = 83ms, Average = 81ms

C:\Users\deano>ping yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [206.190.60.37] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=56
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=56
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=56
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 206.190.60.37:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 43ms, Maximum = 44ms, Average = 43ms

I wonder why that topic was at the top of the list???!!! that is weird, trust me I did not go looking for that one.... lol

O well.