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How many people can you have in a single meeting?
by nathan_long 7y ago
How many people can you have in a single meeting?
- EGreg 7y agoIt’s up to WebRTC and TURN server. Can be any number in theory. The layouts support 100 people, but each participant would have 100 peer to peer connections. Perhaps one advantage of Zoom is that it rebalances things onto servers it owns eg via websockets? Is there documentation on this?
- arendtio 7y agoRecently, I have come across the so-called signaling server which seems to be another part being used with Nextcloud Talk. For Nextclouds the default signaling server can handle just about 4 participants. So there seems to be a bit more to it than just WebRTC and TURN.
- EGreg 7y agoWhat exactly makes this limit?
- arendtio 7y agoI have no idea (maybe PHP). I just saw that they a short info text in the backend and display a warning when you are having a conversation with more than 4 participants. Couldn't find any documentation on what the underlying problem is. > An external signaling server should optionally be used for larger installations. Leave empty to use the internal signaling server. > Please note that calls with more than 4 participants without external signaling server, participants can experience connectivity issues and cause high load on participating devices.
- EGreg 7y agoProbably it's just the sheer amount of connections you have to make. But it's possible to have even 10 people. Especially if you go through a central hub.