We organize relatively frequent meetings and webinars for colleagues across our consortium (with academic institutions across several regions including Africa and the Middle East <https://www.amicalnet.org/members>). We typically have people connecting from 5 or 10 different countries, often with very different levels of internet connection quality/bandwidth. After testing many options (Skype, Hangouts, Fuze, Adobe Connect, AppearIn and others I can't remember) we settled on Zoom for both meetings and webinar-type events. We found meeting connections to be more consistently stable and usable (even if in some cases necessary to cut video and use audio only). Our member institutions may have better internet connections on average compared to local individuals and organizations, though, so perhaps there are other solutions that degrade more gracefully in extremely low/unstable bandwidth environments.
Jeff -- *Jeff Hiroshi Gima * | Director, AMICAL Consortium <http://amicalnet.org/> | American University of Paris <http://www.aup.edu/> [email protected] <[email protected]> | @jeffhgima <https://twitter.com/jeffhgima> *AMICAL members <http://www.amicalnet.org/about/members>: check out our** upcoming events <https://www.amicalnet.org/events>, **recent events <https://www.amicalnet.org/events?past=1> and video archive <https://www.youtube.com/user/amicalconsortium/videos>.* New address: 102 rue Saint Dominique / 75007 Paris / France On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 08:06, Nick Hurlburt <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to help some people across parts of Africa and the Middle East > with communication options, many of whom are in areas with poor internet > infrastructure. Video conferencing is rather painful using the standards > (Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts). I'm wondering if those are the best > available, or if there is anything that is more specifically designed for > those kinds of situations that might work better, or even just degrade more > gracefully? > > Thanks, > Nick > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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