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powerpoint in desktop sharing
Our issue is : While sharing a presentation in a two participants skype video conference meeting , some pages were written in a small font that is so hard to the other side to see, as we could not find a way to zoom it in , we had to share the desktop to the other side , to zoom it in for him to see , In the next 20 seconds , the connection becomes bad , some times lost , We are using a 4 Mb of VPN connection , which should be OK ,so it got to be something else, We have tried to close cameras on both sides while sharing desktop and zooming in a page of presentation , that made some improvement in the connection, I believe this is not a practical solution , as if this the way the skype works, it should close the cam. automatically one the desktop is shared, Pls. advise how to resolve this case ,
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Hi,
Upload the powerpoint to the meeting instead of showing it in a desktop share. That will use lower amount of bandwidth and give users a better experience.
Skype traffic should never go via VPN, you should always use split tunnelling and separate Skype traffic so it goes outside of the VPN tunnel.
Hi,
Thanks for your reply ,
Our company VPN is dedicated to join our main office in Cairo , and our branch in Alexandria (both in Egypt), it is 4Mb bandwidth that is available all the time , almost no traffic most of the time , that is why we using it for skype meeting instead of going through the internet,so, if the VPN is not crawdad , it should be OK for the skype , pls. confirm,
When we sharing a powerpoint presentation , we may find one slide with a small font , as we could not find a way to zoom it in , we tried to use (share desktop) to be able to zoom that slide, once we do this , the connection falls,
To be more specific , we need to know :
1- Is using a not crawdad 4 Mb VPN for two participants skype meeting should be OK?
2- Is there is a way to zoom in / out a slide while sharing a powerpoint presentation which will cancel the need of sharing the desktop?
3- Could we force skype to close the cameras once we shared the desktop to save the used bandwidth ?
Thanks again and best regards
- Is using a not crawdad 4 Mb VPN for two participants skype meeting should be OK?
- Yes, 4 Mbps should not be a problem. But there could be some latency, jitter or something else on that connection creating problems. - Is there is a way to zoom in / out a slide while sharing a powerpoint presentation which will cancel the need of sharing the desktop?
- No, not what I know about. But if you share the PowerPoint instead of desktop and viewers can't see the text, then you should probably change the font in the PowerPoint to a larger size. - Could we force skype to close the cameras once we shared the desktop to save the used bandwidth ?
- If you close cameras it will lower the bandwidth usage for Skype, yes.
- Is using a not crawdad 4 Mb VPN for two participants skype meeting should be OK?
