Hi Bob, On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 02:04:02PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have looked at this thread, trying to figure out the best place to > interject my experience last November, and figure that this last will > work as good as any place... > > Last November I was in a hospital bed trying to get Meetecho to work. > > Between the challenges of the hospital firewall rules for patients, > being out of data on my cellular wifi account and on slow mode, besides > pecking left-handed, I did not get in. > > I would have been happy with an audio feed, the slides, and jabber. But > probably jabber would not work through the hospital firewall either. > Realtime, interactive web apps like the etherpad probably would have > been miserable on that hospital wifi. At simple web form that shows the > conversation up to now and the ability to add some to the conversation > in a RESTFUL mode (hint, hint). > > We have become so use to big bandwidths and lots of data in the pipe > (see the energy saving thread here) that we have forgotten those that > want to connect with bad connectivity. > > In my case, it was probably better that I went to sleep rather than > connect in when the hospital expected me to be asleep. But still... > > Perhaps remote participation instructions for those with low bandwidth > or unruly firewalls would be important to add. The audio stream link already has a dedicated button on the agenda, next to the etherpad link, meeting materials, etc. So it sounds like maybe you are just asking for instructions for low-bandwidth/constrained-access jabber and putting the pieces together? What I do for jabber is to run a persistent TUI client in a screen session on a machine with good connectivity, then ssh to it from wherever I happen to be. Granted, the TUI client is not super great, but it is definitely low-bandwidth for my local access! Sometimes I am even crazy enough to be sitting in one session and following the audio stream of another via one earphone, and monitoring the jabber rooms for both, though this takes quite a bit of concentration to get much value from (definitely no peeking at email). Unfortunately, the audio stream tends to cut out when I try to walk from the room I'm in to the room I'm listening to; presumably my TCP connection doesn't survive switching APs... -Ben
