[AG-TECH] Is the Lobby active or inactive?

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

Chris,

Ditto!

Usually I enter (with 2.0) my own room/lobby area first - and then go 
hit the lobby or location as needed. I save locations that we frequent 
often and go directly to them now. Actually don't have to "navigate" 
around much anymore except when finding a location we haven't been to.

Lately - our multicast has been screwy, and we haven't been able to 
send (again). So we can see the lobby but not get our video out (sorry, 
otherwise I'd leave some video there from time to time). Our telecomm 
people are .... puzzled - I'm giving them 2 weeks to sort it out (while 
i'm on vacation). Has multicast been this much trouble for some of you 
on your campus/institution/locations? Our telecomm people have had 
nothing but trouble with it for months. I've tried to be helpful 
(passed them all the troubleshooting info here and places to go for 
help). I'm getting much better at cranking up that quickbridge...

Looking forward to trying 2.1.1x - but it will have to wait until i'm 
back from vacation mid Sept. Sorry I'll miss the meeting at ANL!

Ivan, hope you're beginning to feel better.

-John Q.

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John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
Computer Manager / Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
LSU Biological Sciences / 131 Life Sciences
e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu
phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:29  PM, Christoph Willing wrote:

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>  From:John I Quebedeaux/johnq/LSU at vislab.usyd.edu.au on 08/29/2003 
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>  On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:10, Randy Groves wrote:
>> With the advent of the new venue server and clients, I'm
>  wondering what the
>> function of the 'Lobby' should be - if, in fact, it needs to
>  exist - at
>> least as a place where audio and video are active.  Until such
>  time as the
>> network services exist to throttle the communications, entering
>  the venue
>> could be problematic if you are using a low-bandwidth client,
>  and you are
>> suddenly bombarded with the streams from all the people who are
>  'parked' in
>> the lobby.
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>> Though it hasn't undergone real extensive testing (and probably
>  won't now
>> that 2.0 is out and looking good), my 1.x venue server doesn't
>  have ANY
>> streams in the lobby.  This gives folks a way to 'stop and catch
>  their
>> breath' before plunging into the fray.
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>> I'm interested in people's thoughts on this.  Of course, since
>  it isn't
>> presently possible to configure a room with NO streams
>  allocated, the point
>> is somewhat moot.  But that's how I see us using the lobby.
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>  We've found a lot of good use for the ANL Lobby with lots of nodes
>  parked there. After we built our first node and were trying to
>  convince
>  others (builders and funders) to do likewise, it was good to be
>  able to
>  log into a single room and show people a large sample of existing
>  users.
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>  The prospect of collaborating with researchers all over the world
>  was
>  immediately demonstrated by seeing so many video streams from the
>  Americas and Europe. Of course the timezone difference meant many
>  of
>  those video streams were just black, since it was night over there
>  during our daylight hours. Way back then, there were no other
>  nodes in
>  this timezone so we couldn't really ask nodes elswhere to be
>  active for
>  quick demos during their night time.
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>  Even though there are now many nodes in this region, the ANL Lobby
>  is
>  still handy for demonstrating the world wide scale of the AG. Its
>  a bit
>  of a shame that fewer nodes are parked there these days.
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>  chris
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