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by swellana Mar 2, 2008 3:12PM PST

Hi,
I am on the look out for best web conferencing services. Now days on demand, web meetings or web conferencing is an essential tool of business interaction. So I also want to use web conferencing service in my business in order to increase my productivity. But I am unable to find the best service provider all over the web which does not have any security loopholes and makes the work easy? Infact, there are many placed on the net but I would like any existing user to have a talk on their appliances performance. If an existing user would help me, it would be good for me.

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BTDT
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 5, 2008 12:20AM PST

The brutal truth is that most conference systems that use a PC and Windows end up at the same location. That is, SUPPORT becomes the big thing as the user can't get their webcam, microphone or other things to work.

After a decade of this nonsense I'm going to write the best solution would be the conference "appliance" and never a PC.

Bob

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web confrency
by austin8 Mar 5, 2008 1:49AM PST

It is always pleasing to help a person in a situation you have faced. I too needed a good appliance and was on the hunt for one. But, thanks to one of the forums I found a web conferencing appliances that suited best to my needs not only in the filed of security but also in terms of simplicity. It is really doing well with me and I could hardly found find any drawbacks which would prevent me from referring to anyone else. I believe that my suggestion may be an end to your search.

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Exactly the gunky issue I wrote about.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 5, 2008 3:53AM PST

While that addresses one tenth of the problem it does not fix the issues with webcams, mics that don't work or the other multitude of issues.

After years of using PC based solutions I'm back to advocating non-PC solutions for most people.

-> For instance, last week had me looking at two new Vista laptops with webcams that only worked with the supplied OS and applications. Trying to use anything else resulted in no webcam found or reboots.

Microsoft has a big chance to fix the driver madness but went for glitz.

Bob

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