MILE had a good experience with a remote presentation as well. I have also been remote for several sessions and the quality has been very good. It seems I can hear the speakers in the room when the folks in the room are having trouble. Best regards, Kathleen Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2015, at 8:51 AM, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) <dromasca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > FWIW - we had an excellent experience today in the LMAP session with Juergen Schoenwaelder presenting remotely and interacting in real time with the attendees in the meeting room in Yokohama. Meetecho worked perfectly. > > Regards, > > Dan > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand >> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 2:21 PM >> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: Remote participation >> >> One thought: >> >> In several countries, 4G mobile phones (including in "tethered hotspot" >> mode) give adequate bandwidth for a WebRTC call. >> >> If the corporate firewall can't be bothered to behave decently, the answer >> may be to .... pick up the phone. >> >>> On 11/02/2015 10:44 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: >>> Simon Pietro Romano <spromano@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> this was an unlucky case. The remote presenter had made the test and >>>> he had indeed reported that he could not make any video (from his >> work >>>> location), whereas he could do “good enough” audio, due to a slow >> (and >>>> firewalled) network connection. My personal feeling is that we should >>>> avoid this kind of situations and perhaps ask the presenters to either >>>> find a better connection or delegate some of the local participants, or >>>> simply throw in the towel. Though, I don’t think we (i.e., the >>> Meetecho >>> >>> I agree: especially when the issue is a firewall outside of the >>> presenter's control, the presenter should be told to move somewhere >> else. >>> >>> Further: could the echo test produce a log of ports >>> attempted/succeeded/failed, and errors (ICMPs/etc) received? >>> It would be nice if we could make it easier to report the issue to >>> "IT", as presumably people are doing this kind of thing with the >>> blessing of their employer, and so they should get supported. >>> >>> It also seems that the decision to present remotely, and not to travel >>> is usually made 2-3 months in advance, and so really there is no >>> excuse to not having things working in that amount of time. >>> >>> (Of course, there are exceptions where people are unable to travel due >>> to last minute issues) >> >> >> -- >> Surveillance is pervasive. Go Dark. >