Hi Jon,
the 2 second delay is latency, you can't compare Skype audio
conferences as this needs much less bandwidth compared to Flash
conferencing.
You should watch your network throughput while conferencing, it might
be a bottleneck somewhere betwee:
You <=> OpenMeetings server <=> Participant
The "<=>" can be either an upload OR download bottleneck as the data
always is processed in both directions.
Sebastian
2012/2/15 Jon Cyr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi All,
That's super, just the news I was hoping for. I've just installed
this at my first client. They're a small company with four
offices across the US, and would like to use this for company
meetings. They've also expressed and interest to do some sales
webinars with their customers to share new product info. Maybe
you should write that up for your website, it helped me.
So far, it works great... I have one glitch where a person is
delayed in the conversation, about 2 seconds behind. At first, I
suspected their older VPN connection they were all surfing
through. But then a Skype call worked without delay, so that
didn't make much sense. So, I no longer think it's a latency
issue on the VPN network, my next step is to check out the
offending client, his Flash Player version, and any
Anti-Virus/Firewall software he may have.
Any clues to a 2 second delay, and what's interesting, it might be
only downstream, because I hear my own voice in the remote
computer's speakers (although I was wearing a headset, he couldn't
hear his own voice, delayed)
Any offending software on WinXP or Win7 that causes problems?
Thanks,
Jon
On 2/15/2012 5:23 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
we have done tests with 120 people in conferene room type
"restricted". With 2-3 presenters audio/video + screensharing.
There was no possibility to test with more users as we had no
more ressources / computers available.
Additionally we have done tests with a customer that runs
webinars 250 people in a single room, roomtype "retricted".
Customers could fill a feedback form after the webinar with a
section for techincal problems.
Result was, that some users did report they had issues in loading
the initial slide of the conference room.
That started when there was more then 200 people arriving at the
same second/minute in the restricted room.
So the results so far are that restricted room type can handle
max 150 users, the bottleneck as result of the tests are:
1) As the others explained, your hadrware and server bandwidth of
course
2) At some point the number of users arriving at the same second
in the conference room, so you should not invite 10.000 people
for 9.00 p.m. in the conference room, as if 1000 people at
_exactly_ 9.00 and 0 seconds click on the conference room this
can lead to a problem
3) There are no test results available for more then 250 people,
so far there have been no technical reason to say "more then 250
people is not possible" but just because there has been no test
with more then 250 physical browser windows loggedin into a
single conference room.
4) The roomtype desigend for large meetings is room type
"restricted" it has a special implementation of the user list
that buffers incoming users before re-rendering the user-list to
prevent the problems with the 50 or 100 users arriving at the
same time. Also the user-list type is different as it uses some
paging mechanism to only render the visible area. Roomtype
"conference" and "audience" do not have those optimizations.
Sebastian
2012/2/15 Norbert Haag <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi Jon,
We are starting with openmeetings and therefore cannot come
up with “real life” experiences so far. However, we tested
the system and from a technical perspective it doesn’t
prevent you from having 100 or more attendees.
The challenge with such amounts of attendees is not the
system and even not really the hardware –though a dedicated
server with at least 8G is preferred- but the bandwidth you have.
Bandwidth here means the bandwidth the server has, as it has
to stream the data to each attendee. This is the biggest
bottleneck in the whole process and not the system or even
the hardware.
*Von:*Jon Cyr [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>]
*Gesendet:* Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012 22:58
*An:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Betreff:* Re: AW: What's the largest meeting you've run
Hi Norbert,
It means... in non-technical terms, who's holding meetings,
how many people...
Real examples.
For instance... My name is Fred, I hold weekly web-seminars
or webinars with over 100 people, it works great.
Who is using this? Share an anonymous story of how it's
going. Don't worry, you don't have to prove it, you're not
on the hook.
I have a server with unlimited bandwidth on a meter, and 8G
of RAM on a 4 processor CPU, with 64bit Ubuntu LTS Lucid,
anybody have something close to tell me what I can expect.
-Jon
On 2/7/2012 3:14 PM, Norbert Haag wrote:
*Von:*Jon Cyr [mailto:[email protected]]
*Gesendet:* Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012 20:53
*An:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Betreff:* What's the largest meeting you've run
Hey,
I'm new to OpenMeetings, seems great. But I haven't pushed
the system.
If you would...
1. What's your largest meeting?
What can your werver handle= (bandwith etc.)
2. Webinar or Interactive Meeting?
Uhm what do you mean by webinars?
3. Rough or Avg Video Settings?
? If that means how big a video you can send, the answer is
depends on you upload bandwidth (means is not an issue of
openmeeetings but your capability to feed=
4. Server size, rough?
Depends on what you want. But do not start below 2 GB of
dedicated space (unless recoding is nothing you want to do=
5. How long?
How long what?
Thanks,
Jon
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