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Jitsi's free SaaS is a great resource to have available but it's not really viable for many many (most?) use-cases. Apart from general stability issues (which i

Jitsi's free SaaS is a great resource to have available but it's not really viable for many many (most?) use-cases. Apart from general stability issues (which is in fairness are always improving) the biggest blocker is the "Video turned off to save bandwidth" message that you will inevitably receive on any call with more than 2 members. This doesn't seem in my experience to just be something that occurs occasionally due to load - it's very consistent. Nor is there any option to override it (e.g. a call with 5 participants where 4 have turned off video will still experience this on the 5th participant - video can't be re-enabled once you see this). If this were a limitation of a free plan, with a paid option offering higher bandwidth, that would be cool, but the only paid options they offer are app integrations starting at $100/mo for 300 users.

brightlancer 3y ago
> the biggest blocker is the "Video turned off to save bandwidth" message that you will inevitably receive on any call with more than 2 members. It's not inevitable. I use Jitsi every week for a 3+ hour meeting and I haven't seen that error in more than a year. I don't remember if I ever tracked down what was causing it, but it may have been high latency or low bandwidth on my end (which I resolved about a year ago).
- DANmode 3y ago
  I resolved it by asking my partner to use something for the meeting other than Firefox. Worked.
tornato7 3y ago
Yes, you can change the maxFullResolutionParticipants setting in config.js to fix this.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
  Will you walk my mom through that?
  - tornato7 3y ago
    This is a setting that you change on the host that applies to all clients using that Jitsi server.
- lucideer 3y ago
  you can't in their free saas, and they don't offer paid saas on a per-user basis (just a $100/mo plan for 300 users)
  - tornato7 3y ago
    You can change it on their free self-hosted deployment.

brightlancer 3y ago

> the biggest blocker is the "Video turned off to save bandwidth" message that you will inevitably receive on any call with more than 2 members. It's not inevitable. I use Jitsi every week for a 3+ hour meeting and I haven't seen that error in more than a year. I don't remember if I ever tracked down what was causing it, but it may have been high latency or low bandwidth on my end (which I resolved about a year ago).

DANmode 3y ago
I resolved it by asking my partner to use something for the meeting other than Firefox. Worked.

tornato7 3y ago

Yes, you can change the maxFullResolutionParticipants setting in config.js to fix this.

SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
Will you walk my mom through that?
- tornato7 3y ago
  This is a setting that you change on the host that applies to all clients using that Jitsi server.
lucideer 3y ago
you can't in their free saas, and they don't offer paid saas on a per-user basis (just a $100/mo plan for 300 users)
- tornato7 3y ago
  You can change it on their free self-hosted deployment.