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Having used Zoom for several remote projects, I really do love it. It’s reliable, great image quality for sharing screens (which was necessary for us), and had
by mroche 8y ago
Having used Zoom for several remote projects, I really do love it. It’s reliable, great image quality for sharing screens (which was necessary for us), and had crystal clear audio. Zoom is great, giving customers access to an enterprise grade software solution for video conferencing at a low price.
There’s several of what appear to be anti-WebEx posts around here, and it makes me question who have actually used it in its intended setup. The university I’m at recently redid a lot of the rooms, and created several so-called presentation zones that are outfitted with WebEx equipment. Multi-monitor presentation (for the speaker and audience), multi-view camera’s that track and focus on the current speaker/audience member, and an audio system who’s microphone can pick up sound from pretty much anywhere in the room and doesn’t feedback loop on itself. To me that’s the difference when you go with a Cisco solution. Other vendors you get a utility or software, Cisco gets you into an ecosystem of well integrated tools, both software and hardware. Whether or not you actually need them is up to you.
- jeena 8y agoThis doesn't help when people mostly just want to join the standup from the tram or their desk at home.
- mroche 8y agoI’ve joined across several devices (desktop, laptop, iPhone) with little to no issues. Maybe I’m just lucky and getting best case scenario?
- jeena 8y agoI'd almost guess so, I tried to install broken deb packages on Linux and I think I tried some app for android (it's long ago, don't remember), in both cases I wasn't able to connect.
- danieldisu 8y agoUntil you have to connect to one of these so called solutions from your laptop. Using Webex puts my cpu at 100% with a mediocre quality, while I can use hangouts or Slack to call without these problems.
- mroche 8y agoI connect to the stream with my laptop just fine, and it doesn’t stress my system. I’ve tried browser, temporary runtime, and real desktop app. I did a test run on Friday with a guest speaker for today who was calling in from the west coast to us on the east coast. She was joining from a laptop. Connection was solid and worked great. Hopefully it stays that way today!