From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Glenn Meadows wrote:
> Recently Scott in our NY office and I tried a Net Meeting session between
> our two laptops, using a LinkSys USB2 camera.  We are connected via a
> private T-1 between the offices, with a Cisco 1720 router on each end, so we
> can use private IP addresses, and connect direct machine to machine.  Our
> results were no better than using a pubic reflection server.  Audio was
> poor, video was jerky, audio was at many times out of sync.  This is with
> the built-in Net Meeting provided in XP-Pro.  There is no way I'd try or
> even suggest using that for a major meeting in a conference room.
>
> We configured both sides to be on a local corporate lan, but the speeds
> showing on the network usage were tiny.  There was no way we could figure
> out to make it anything other than the same as an ICQ Video Chat setup.
>


I am using skype a lot & it's quite usefull for 2 reasons above &
beyond most conference calls.

A) IM/File transfer etc as well. "I'm sorry bob I don't have a copy of
that document" is a thing of the past.

B) You can build up large conferences by "federating them".

i.e. you can have a teleconference of 4 but....all 4 can be calls into
other skype conferences 

C) I allows you to bring people into the discussion easily (so long as
they're up on the skype system).

Adam

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