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This page automatically starts a live voice & video call the moment another visitor lands on /connect — no sign-up, no link to send, nothing to click. Two browsers simply find each other and connect directly. While you wait, here's how that's actually possible.

📦 Packet Switching

Every video frame, word, and click is chopped into small packets that travel independently across the network and get reassembled the moment they arrive — the core idea the whole internet is built on.

🤝 The Three-Step Handshake

Before any data flows, two computers trade a tiny SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK — a formal introduction that happens in a few milliseconds, every single time.

💡 The Speed of Light Tax

Light in fiber travels at about 200,000 km/s. A round trip between New York and Sydney takes roughly 160ms minimum — no amount of bandwidth can beat physics.

🌊 Cables, Not Satellites

Around 99% of intercontinental data travels through undersea fiber-optic cables, some longer than 20,000km, not through space.

🕳️ Punching Through NAT

Your router hides you behind a private address. A technique called ICE/STUN lets two strangers' browsers discover their public paths and punch a direct hole through to each other — often without any server in the middle.

🔐 End-to-End by Default

Once found, this call's audio and video travel peer-to-peer and are encrypted browser-to-browser via WebRTC — this site never sees or stores your stream.

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