At 02:51 PM 1/10/99 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 03:14 PM 1/9/99 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>I've used Internet video conferencing with a few thousand folks. Audio got
>me even more, on the same bandwidth. If you run a send-only mutli-cast feed
>for video and two-way Internet phone you could handle quite a few folks.
>The big problem is the bandwidth, into the servers, for the Internet
>telephony stuff and *that* doesn't have to be at the meeting site. The
>meeting site only needs a satellite server for the audio and that could
>handle the video as well.
>
>I've tried Internet phone from/to quite a few long-haul segments of the
>Internet and the results have been tolerable for, at most, only a couple of
>minutes.
>
>I've also watched other uses of mbone broadcasting. It's an incredible
>accomplishment, but it is not ready for use as an integral part of a
>critical decision process.
Agreed. But it's not th eonly option.
Keep looking :-) Maybe you'll find us.
> >At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >Please don't post HTML. *Some* of us still use /usr/bin/mail :-)
>
>I guess that means no MIME or alternate character sets, either.
I use /mail and Eudora. The above are not a problem for me.
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