Re: Sametime meeting

[Tom Kreimer <tkreimer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,
Your a little ahead of me. I have only tested a two user SameTime meeting, 
although the desktop sharing worked quite well with audio and video 
between a LAN client and home based DSL client on our 520 value edition.

One thing that is very basic and easy to overlook - check the ethernet 
interfaces on your 400. A lot default to only 10Mbs and Half duplex. If 
your network consists of 100Mbs or 1000Mbs hubs or switches, you can 
change the line description to *AUTO for both speed and duplex (Full 
duplex only works on switches, not hubs). This is a basic tip, but you 
might not have noticed with the lower bandwidth apps. 

In the same vein, check the MTU on your default (or other) route, it used 
to default to something paltry like 512 bytes. Change it to *IFC and you 
will send up to 2-3 times the data in a single packet instead of multiple 
packets, cutting some overhead from Internet bound transmissions.

I noticed that SameTime defaults to "Secure" for everything, leading me to 
believe that there is a lot of encryption going on. Maybe just uncheck the 
"Secure Meeting" check box and try it once without.
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Tom Kreimer
Information Alternatives



We have recently installed Sametime and Quickplace on our model 825 and 
are
running Domino 6.5.2. We started a few projects with Quickplace and it
works very well. We use Sametime messaging among our IT group and it helps
a lot. Recently we tried our first meeting in Sametime trying to broadcast
to an audience of users inside our network and coming in via the internet 
.
We have a T1 and when we tried the desktop share the pages were "painting"
to both users inside and outside of our network. We did have a little
better performance when we did a share of an application vs. sharing a
desktop. Does anyone have any tips or adjustments to make to get a usable
meeting environment with Sametime? We did not use the audio or video tools
thinking that would help but things were still very slow. Any advise or
help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

Mike Poweleit
OKI Bering