net meetings

[chris deacon]

Is it possible to hold a net conferance with more than two
people and if so how do i go about it???

Please help me its driving me mad!!!

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[Rob Schneider]

With Microsoft NetMeeting, yes you can. Best way is for all
participants to connect to a designated machine. Depending on bandwidth
and how you are using NetMeeting, my experience is you can get up to
10-20 machines. With so many users, not only for computer/telecom
reasons but also for meeting productivity, best that most everyone just
'watch' and let only one person do the 'driving' of what's broadcast
with NetMeeting.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Sooner Al]

Better define a "meeting"... An audio/video conference? Then the answer is no. Audio/video is only
one-on-one. Whiteboard/application sharing? Then the answer is yes.

For a FREE multiparty audio/video conferencing program look at iVisit. You can get a free "Lite"
version. Go to http://www.ivisit.com for details.

Otherwise, post additional questions concerning NetMeeting to the
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internet.netmeeting news group.

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[Rob Schneider]

Good catch. Audio sharing like this barely works with two people, much
less with more than two. I never use audio in Netmeeting (and hence
forgot to mention this). The phone is way to go.

I have found that video, again from one person, to multiple people works
ok. On average video is not a band-width hog (like audio is). A long
time ago (1997) we tested a meeting with everyone dispalying a video
image and while it seemed to work to provide pictures, it certainly was
not television. People didn't need the video image anyway, so it went
out of use.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms