From our testing, Whatsapp is one of the worst. Zoom is in between. Hangouts is usually decent. But again, nowhere near bluray quality.
From our testing, Whatsapp is one of the worst. Zoom is in between. Hangouts is usually decent. But again, nowhere near bluray quality.
I think Discord was similarly good but... Discord just isn't what I'm going to voice call family on... realistically ever.
Conference calls with a central server are particularly suspectible to "lowest common denominator" issues.
Also to consider: where does the connection flow through? if you're both going through Google/Amazon servers (SFU, etc), it's quite possible your ISP will provide a route with a decent bandwidth. It's also quite possible if you establish a direct P2P link or through a route your ISP considers less important, they'll slow it down or simply oversubscribe this route.