[Cialug] Jitsi Meet Failure

[L. V. Lammert]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:

> Well, I have to say in the end I'm disappointed by Jitsi Meet. It
> seemedfairly easy to get set up but once I tried it "for real" with my
> parents itwas a complete failure. On both my Mom's MacBook and my Dad's
> iMac theirbrowser would crash when trying to enter the conference. I'm
> sure that it'sPEBCAK somewhere in the system (even possibly mine, maybe
> there's somesetting that I need to tweak) but when we tried Google Meet
> it "JustWorked(TM)". My folks aren't super tech savvy (they had a hard
> timeunderstanding what I was asking them to do when I asked if they had
> anotherbrowser that they could try like Firefox or Safari). They also
> live 3 hoursaway so even under normal circumstances an in-person visit
> isn't somethingI can do at the moment. That combined with the fact that
> you need a fairly fat VPS with plenty ofmemory (on Digital Ocean I was
> using a $40/month droplet) I decided that itwasn't worth it. I also
> don't have enough upload bandwidth to reallyconsider running this at
> home. If this was for a business I might consider trying this again, or
> if theLUG wants to front the cash for a VPS I'd assist with the setup.
> But forpersonal use I think that this is a non-starter. -- Jeff OllieThe
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 Leland V. Lammert            lvl at omnitec.net
  Chief Scientist        Omnitec Corporation
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