Office Communicator – on voice and video
Posted by eileenb on June 24, 2008
I suppose there’s one small benefit to being without a car at the moment is that I get to chat to a lot of my colleagues on Communicator and video.
Here’s my call with Jane this morning. I have 1/2Mb broadband, Jane has about 1Mb. We were chatting about how things were during the rest of TechEd IT Pro week, how her session went and how Rhonda from my panel won Speaker idol on Friday – Woohoo! (you can see the heats here on TechEd Online by the way)
The yellow triangle above the call duration window tells me that the call quality is poor. But what did I actually notice? A slight latency in our voices which meant we can’t interrupt each other too much, and a bit of lip sync between the voice and video.
But I saved a bit of carbon by not going into the Office today (130 miles) but I expect I used all of that up in all the electricity I used from making all those coffees …
