On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, John C Klensin wrote:
When I've seen something equivalent to "if you want something repeated in the room, start it with 'to mic:'", I take it to mean "Jabber input is preferred in this session to use of remote queues". Maybe that will go away over time as we all get used to the remote queue facility but, for the near term, I'd much prefer to see something more like "if you have input for the room and don't find the remote queue facility convenient, type your message into Jabber and preface it with 'MIC:'"
I have never considered that people might take it this way. For me it was never an encouragement, it was mostly just to announce my services as a relayer of information. I will in the future also try to mention the remote queue facility so that people consider both. Thanks for sharing your view on this topic so I can improve.
My experience with remote queue facility is that many people seem not used to remote voice/video setup and tend to have problems getting their voice quality right. I do voice/video conferencing from my computer ~10 times a week and this is a common thing. Many things can go wrong with VoIP and it does require a well-working setup for things to work well. I encourage people to test their setup before the meeting. I've seen everything from choppy audio which typically (from my experience in fault-finding VoIP issues) tend to be bad wifi connectivity or WAN connectivity (bufferbloat), to clipping microphones due to either bad quality microphone or wrong gain setting, to all kinds of other problems.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx
