Hi, first of all, you'll probably not have fun with a dsl connection hosting openmeetings. 0,4 mbit/s (50 kbyte/s) will suffice for audio for maybe 10 persons. That is if only 1 person is talking and the audio gets transmitted to all participants. 1 video stream will use up that bandwith by itself even in a 1:1 connection. You should consider a cheap hosting service, there are many vps provider I'd say that offer a system capable of handling your users for around $7 or 8 (5-6 euro for us here in germany) per month. A quick search on google for "vps server" dug up this for example: https://www.atlantic.net/promotions/vps-up-to-30-percent-off/ if you would consider an European provider (mine is http://www.server4you.de/vserver/ ) you'll even get much more value. They also have US based servers.
Okay... let's get to your questions. 1) basically, yes. As long as the operating system recognizes the mic and flash gets access, you should be good to go. 2) was answered before 3) insignificant, except you have a pc from 10+ years ago 4) for audio-only-meetings I could suggest teamspeak 3. It's free up to 500 users (non-commercial only) and very performant. For video chat up to 15 people I suggest google hangouts. You wouldn't need a server there, but openmeetings is (to my knowledge) the only solution supporting more than 16 participants. Greetings from Germany, Martin Müller. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Marco Barbàra [mailto:jab...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2014 18:28 An: user@openmeetings.apache.org Betreff: Is Openmeetings suitable to me? Dear Openmeeting users, I am a potential new openmeeting user that is seeking information. I'd like to establish a way for a little community spread over the Internet to have an electronic meeting (it should be no more than 30 people), and I'd like to do with a free software tool. Openmeetings looks great, but I'd like to know experts' opinions on the feasibililty of what I have in mind. What is in my mind is a very-very-poor-man solution: I could install openmeetings at home on my Debian machine, with the needed services running (ssh and what else?), configure my home router to accept requests on ports 5080, 1935, 8088, activate some dynDNS configuration. Whith all these fragile things working, other people should be able to connect my server and we could graciously have our webconference, since, if I don't go wrong, client-side software should do all the rest for others. What am I missing? (because I'm sure there is something) My questions: 1. Could I rely on the fact that people microphones are all supported? 2. Real problem: bandwidth. My upload rate is no more than 0.4 Mb/s and I suspect this is definitely not enough, but I really have no idea. Only voice shoud travel, though. 3. CPU usage? 3. Is there some kind of (cheap) hosted service I could take advantage of? 4. What other solutions could I implement (possibly using free-as-in-freedom software)? I suspect that for an audio meeting there could exist a less featured than openmeetings Thanks all for the attention and accept my apologies in case I inadvertently misused this mailing list. Best regards Marco Barbàra
