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> 15 minutes to figure out the teleconference software We just Skype for Business and Zoom at work. Both are just one click. Webex is also good. It's little co

> 15 minutes to figure out the teleconference software We just Skype for Business and Zoom at work. Both are just one click. Webex is also good. It's little confusing though (too many options). My partners use it so I have to also use it. Maybe, you need to evaluate your teleconf s\w.

gwbas1c 8y ago
I don't know why people are downvoting you. There are idiots who constantly take 15 minutes to figure out those teleconference software. Each and every time. I can understand taking 3-5 minutes extra the first time using something like that, and I can understand occasional technical difficulties. What's not acceptable is after 2 calls still having technical difficulties. For example, A year ago I started working with a driver developer who would constantly drop out of the teleconference after 7 minutes, without a polite "technical difficulties" IM or email. Turns out he was always calling in from within some kind of VM and always needed to reboot in the middle of the meeting. We had to get the manager to tell him to stop it. Another example is that, a few days ago, I interviewed someone through WebEx. She took 10 minutes to figure out how to get her microphone to work. After 5 minutes I made up my mind that, unless she was spectacular, I wasn't going to hire her. (She interviewed very poorly.) What's extremely frustrating is that she didn't have the decency to just have WebEx call her phone, and instead kept me waiting for 10 minutes. That's just plain rude.
- juangacovas 8y ago
  Well I have a story about Webex not working with the very last version of Chrome at that moment. Setting up a previous version of Chrome was not a walk in the park. I guess not all countries can "have WebEx call her phone" without hassle.
- jnurmine 8y ago
  Maybe it is a tool issue? For example, if developers using Linux are asked to teleconference using tools built solely with Windows in mind, sometimes it will work with a VM, but often it randomly doesn't. If I remember right, Intel used Skype for Business which as a teleconferencing tool was just rubbish. (Maybe it still is?)
- an_d_rew 8y ago
  Ha. Every week WebEx cannot remember my audio settings or the Dell laptop mic/headphone drivers just ... don’t work. Don’t blame the people when all you give them are shite tools.
cosmie 8y ago
We use Skype for Business, and it's a common cause of issues. We have constant issues with different individuals not being able to join meeting invites (although the dial in always works, the app doesn't), people being able to join but video/screenshare or audio not working, it refusing to acknowledge the leader so it doesn't start, etc. Our IT team has sent out a bunch of surveys trying to triage the cause of the intermittent issues, but haven't been able to result the problems yet. It drives us nuts though. And that's with the resources of a Fortune 100 trying to deal with it. Glad it's working well for you, though. That gives me hope they can't get it working more smoothly for us eventually.
- edwhitesell 8y ago
  We used Skype for Business until a few months ago and had a fair amount of issues. We switched our Office 365 accounts all over to Teams and everything has been working a lot better since.
  - addicted 8y ago
    We are in the same boat. Skype for Business was extremely unreliable. Especially if you wanted to use a mobile device (I also had a weird issue where my Skype for Business would occasionally start thinking it was Lync, and refuse to work). Switching to Teams has made life a whole lot better.
    - imglorp 8y ago
      Skype has basically been abandoned. They are pushing hard on Teams as an answer to Slack, eg integrations are coming along. It's no slack yet, but it's getting there.
speedplane 8y ago
> We just Skype for Business and Zoom at work. Both are just one click. Skype within the app is good, but if you use their dial-in numbers, it takes a minimum of 30 seconds to get into a conference.

gwbas1c 8y ago

I don't know why people are downvoting you. There are idiots who constantly take 15 minutes to figure out those teleconference software. Each and every time. I can understand taking 3-5 minutes extra the first time using something like that, and I can understand occasional technical difficulties. What's not acceptable is after 2 calls still having technical difficulties. For example, A year ago I started working with a driver developer who would constantly drop out of the teleconference after 7 minutes, without a polite "technical difficulties" IM or email. Turns out he was always calling in from within some kind of VM and always needed to reboot in the middle of the meeting. We had to get the manager to tell him to stop it. Another example is that, a few days ago, I interviewed someone through WebEx. She took 10 minutes to figure out how to get her microphone to work. After 5 minutes I made up my mind that, unless she was spectacular, I wasn't going to hire her. (She interviewed very poorly.) What's extremely frustrating is that she didn't have the decency to just have WebEx call her phone, and instead kept me waiting for 10 minutes. That's just plain rude.

juangacovas 8y ago
Well I have a story about Webex not working with the very last version of Chrome at that moment. Setting up a previous version of Chrome was not a walk in the park. I guess not all countries can "have WebEx call her phone" without hassle.
jnurmine 8y ago
Maybe it is a tool issue? For example, if developers using Linux are asked to teleconference using tools built solely with Windows in mind, sometimes it will work with a VM, but often it randomly doesn't. If I remember right, Intel used Skype for Business which as a teleconferencing tool was just rubbish. (Maybe it still is?)
an_d_rew 8y ago
Ha. Every week WebEx cannot remember my audio settings or the Dell laptop mic/headphone drivers just ... don’t work. Don’t blame the people when all you give them are shite tools.

cosmie 8y ago

We use Skype for Business, and it's a common cause of issues. We have constant issues with different individuals not being able to join meeting invites (although the dial in always works, the app doesn't), people being able to join but video/screenshare or audio not working, it refusing to acknowledge the leader so it doesn't start, etc. Our IT team has sent out a bunch of surveys trying to triage the cause of the intermittent issues, but haven't been able to result the problems yet. It drives us nuts though. And that's with the resources of a Fortune 100 trying to deal with it. Glad it's working well for you, though. That gives me hope they can't get it working more smoothly for us eventually.

edwhitesell 8y ago
We used Skype for Business until a few months ago and had a fair amount of issues. We switched our Office 365 accounts all over to Teams and everything has been working a lot better since.
- addicted 8y ago
  We are in the same boat. Skype for Business was extremely unreliable. Especially if you wanted to use a mobile device (I also had a weird issue where my Skype for Business would occasionally start thinking it was Lync, and refuse to work). Switching to Teams has made life a whole lot better.
  - imglorp 8y ago
    Skype has basically been abandoned. They are pushing hard on Teams as an answer to Slack, eg integrations are coming along. It's no slack yet, but it's getting there.

speedplane 8y ago

> We just Skype for Business and Zoom at work. Both are just one click. Skype within the app is good, but if you use their dial-in numbers, it takes a minimum of 30 seconds to get into a conference.