Quote Originally Posted by frankd1 View Post
Cool... thanks for the prompt reply Tim!

In another thread (can't remember if it was here or on DSLR, and I have no memory at all if you even participated in the thread) I was surprised to hear that using the 3-way call feature actually used more b/w. I always pictured the feature as bridging the call centrally (datacenter, CO, etc) and from the ATA's point POV, it's just handling a single call that happens to have multiple parties online). So, if this other thread was accurate, then my theoretical 5-way call would use 5 times the bw of a standard 1 to 1 call?
Yeah it's a little confusing.

The audio doesn't actually go through us normally. 99% of the time it's a direct stream from your ATA to the remote phone gateway handing off the call to the regular phone network of the person you're talking to.

So 5 calls basically means 5 streams from you to their appropriate gateways for the people you're talking to.