iCHATAV from Hong Kong to america works great ... Re: [Ti] Videoconferencing, anyone?

[warwick teale]

All, I use iCHATAV regularly to friends in London, Shanghai, Denver, 
Boulder, Montreal, Beijing, Munich, Wagga Wagga, Sydney and Dubai from 
here in HONG KONG.

My link is 802.11b (snowy airport to my ISP).

Naturally the service varies depending on the network load usually at 
my friends sites in their countries. If you use an "el cheapo" ISP then 
you wont get the full bandwidth for the VIDEO portion.

I have "8Mb" to the floor here in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong ISP 
called "iCABLE".. works great... maybe 4Mb/sec at best .. like now in 
the middle of the day.

We have all found that iCHATAV (the beta version) seems to drop 
away/degrade dramatically after say 5 minutes. Is this a "limit" added 
to the software? (just wondering).

LAst week from Dubai to HK, we could only get AUDIO because the uplink 
from DUbai was so slow.... but it works great and save lots of money on 
phone calls.

I am using it for business as well and personal..

I can also tell you that iCHATAV works great from the Cathay Pacific 
lounge over their 802.11b. I had many curious people looking at my Ti 
whilst I was having a video chat with my friend in Sydney I had an 
earphones from my Ti... the bandwidth reported by the "CONNECTION 
DOCTOR" was in excess of 180Kb/sec...

I was using my iSIGHT camera and my colleague has a SONY TRV950 n his 
mac....

SO.. it works great here in HONG KONG.

w
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:09 AM, Dave Friesen wrote:

> iChat works just fine. Just as long as the other party has decent Mac 
> and a
> camera.
>
> The audio works great across the country, don't know how it is across 
> the
> Pacific. Had a 3 hr conversation with my brother, even though it would 
> have
> been free on the cell phone (except for minutes) it was much easier 
> with the
> iChat.
>
> Better the Mac the better you may find the video.
>
> On 7/28/03 7:48 PM, "Murray Kastner" <murrayka at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> My girlfriend's son is going to Hong Kong for a year (to design and
>> build a new city, I am told...) and I wondered if anyone has had some
>> hands-on experience with it. I would imagine he'll be set up to do it
>> between head office in NYC and his HK office. I have a 17" Big Al with
>> a Meg of RAM. I believe that I have the requisite software available
>> from Apple?
>>
>> Comments and especially experiences very welcome!
>>
>> Murray
>>
>>
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