Has anyone used Web-ex for remote conferencing?

[Charlie E.]

That's the scenario that I had hoped for. However, they did not even let
me into the meeting without loading this slow meeting manager Java
stuff. Completely takes the fun out of it. At least they could offer to
let it reside on individual PCs after having used their demo meeting to
see if things work. But no :-(

IMHO they could use some fresh IT talent and they should definitely
listen to users. For example send out a request after a whole group
became fed up and abandoned a session like what happened in this case.

Hi Jeorg,
I don't remember how WEBEX does it, but I know that Spacecruiser has
two option - one, just a 'view the meeting' setup only used a quick
java type interface only let you see the meeting, you couldn't host of
share your desktop. The more intense option had you install an
application on your machine, that then let you host a meeting and
share your desktop or individual applications. I always used the
second setup, as it was a lot faster once you had the application
installed. (Except, of course, when they had an update you needed to
install, which you would discover 2 minutes before you were scheduled
to host a meeting, which would take 5 minutes to upload and install...
;-) )

Charlie
Edmondson Engineering
www.edmondsonengineering.com

 

[Joerg]

Hi Jeorg,
I don't remember how WEBEX does it, but I know that Spacecruiser has
two option - one, just a 'view the meeting' setup only used a quick
java type interface only let you see the meeting, you couldn't host of
share your desktop. The more intense option had you install an
application on your machine, that then let you host a meeting and
share your desktop or individual applications. I always used the
second setup, as it was a lot faster once you had the application
installed. (Except, of course, when they had an update you needed to
install, which you would discover 2 minutes before you were scheduled
to host a meeting, which would take 5 minutes to upload and install...
;-) )

Well, I'd expect such meeting providers to cater to the technically
not-so-savvy. Sales guys, marketeers, investment folks, doctors
discussing a difficult case, and so on. Why don't they just offer an
option "Keep Java routines on your machine? []Yes []No" But I guess
that solution would be too straightforward.

I wonder how Skype would be. There ain't much info on their site about
sharing presentations, doc files, desktops. Just video conferencing but
seeing each other is usually the least of our worries. We would need to
see a common document and make mutually agreed upon edits right then and
there (redlining).

 

[Joerg]

Charlie E. wrote: [snip]

(Except, of course, when they had an update you needed to
install, which you would discover 2 minutes before you were scheduled
to host a meeting, which would take 5 minutes to upload and install...
;-) )

Well, I'd expect such meeting providers to cater to the technically
not-so-savvy. Sales guys, marketeers, investment folks, doctors
discussing a difficult case, and so on. Why don't they just offer an
option "Keep Java routines on your machine? []Yes []No" But I guess
that solution would be too straightforward.

I wonder how Skype would be. There ain't much info on their site about
sharing presentations, doc files, desktops. Just video conferencing but
seeing each other is usually the least of our worries. We would need to
see a common document and make mutually agreed upon edits right then and
there (redlining).

When I have a free moment ;-) I'm going to look into what Skype video
entails. I have been conversing quite nicely with an Australian
client via Skype (audio)... quite high quality, particularly notable
yesterday when he called me via a land-line... I could barely
understand him... like talking between two tin cans connected by
string :-(

Let us know what you find out. Especially WRT document sharing. That's
really the only reason for me to use an online service. POTS usually
works well and seeing each other doesn't add too much value IMHO. Unless
you can show a drawing but when I tried that with my Logitech web cam it
was nearly unintelligible. Those things don't have any real resolution
and the dynamic range is the pits.

Some of my phone conferences have people on there from countries where
English isn't frequently spoken. I am quite used to thick accents but I
always wonder how people with just school-English would fare. Must be
quite frustrating to them. "Wot leeshe foh onny won glou in shyste?" =
"What is the reason for only a single ground in the system?"

 

[Martin Griffith]

Charlie E. wrote: [snip]

(Except, of course, when they had an update you needed to
install, which you would discover 2 minutes before you were scheduled
to host a meeting, which would take 5 minutes to upload and install...
;-) )

Well, I'd expect such meeting providers to cater to the technically
not-so-savvy. Sales guys, marketeers, investment folks, doctors
discussing a difficult case, and so on. Why don't they just offer an
option "Keep Java routines on your machine? []Yes []No" But I guess
that solution would be too straightforward.

I wonder how Skype would be. There ain't much info on their site about
sharing presentations, doc files, desktops. Just video conferencing but
seeing each other is usually the least of our worries. We would need to
see a common document and make mutually agreed upon edits right then and
there (redlining).

When I have a free moment ;-) I'm going to look into what Skype video
entails. I have been conversing quite nicely with an Australian
client via Skype (audio)... quite high quality, particularly notable
yesterday when he called me via a land-line... I could barely
understand him... like talking between two tin cans connected by
string :-(

...Jim Thompson

What I found quite useful with Skype was that I could send hex files
to the UK, while still chatting, and the UK wiring shop would burn the
chip, reboot the pcb and see what happened their end. Typically a
misplaced character on an LCD, if it was wrong I'd just alter the bit
of C, recompile and re-send the new hex file.

Never got around to using the webcam, they don't seem to be set up for
inspecting PCB probs


martin