Group: alt.sci.physics.acoustics
From: "Peter Larsen"
Date: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Megaconferece

Angelo Campanella wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> FYI, the Megaconference (www.megaconference.org) is now in progress
> LIVE and will be for a total of 24 hours, about 9am now through 9am
> tomorrow. Though replays will be available ad nauseam.

> This is the ongoing development of Internet 2, a worldwide project led
> by the Ohio State University to apply very high speed Internet for
> live and interactive videoconfernceing

> My acquaintance, Bob Dixon, is host and interlocketer.

> Go to www.megaconference.org with the Internet Explorer browser to set
> up for real time reception.

Site works, but I don't seem to get any video. I have not tried the
realmedia brand and the quicktime brands ... could be a bandwidth issue
tho', I stepped back to 512 kbits, never seemed to need more.

> Note audio modus operandi. For many events, they are trying voice
> operated switching (with all its idiosyncrasies).

> Let me know our comments and I will pass them on to Bob Dixon.

Less of an experience than I had expected.

> Angelo Campanella


Kind regards

Peter Larsen