[AG-TECH] Interesting use of VoIP

[Lee Margetts]

That is very interesting.  Personally, I (and my skype friends) abandoned using a PIG and started using SKYPE around a year ago.  It has easy conference calling, VoIP to standard telephone, easy file sharing and easy text chat.  It works 99.99% of the time and only takes 15-20 seconds to install from the web!  Even my granny uses it.  No messing about with multicast, bridges, the latest "in vogue"  MUD package, IP numbers, ports, AG2 etc. etc.   

If there's video4skype too, I'm even less likely to return to AG. 

By the way, this is my personal opinion ;-)  not U of Manchester policy)

Dr Lee Margetts
High Performance Computing
University of Manchester

http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/margetts

--- Original Message ---
> We are doing a workshop over the AG this week and we've come
>  across 2
> people that were having AG network problems. Interestly, both
>  are Skype
> users. After a quick brainstorming session, I was able to patch
>  the audio
> and video into my laptop and run Skype in conference call mode
>  (with
> Video4Skype) and now they are able to participate in the
>  workshop.
> 
> I just thought I'd spread this information along in case you
>  AG operators
> run out of ideas to get around AG networking problems.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Mann
> jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu
> 
> University of Texas Health Science Center
> Bioinformatics Core Facility
> http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
> Phone: (210) 567-2672
>