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Weblog:   Blame the last man standing?
Subject:   Rendezvous
Date:   2003-07-14 21:24:33
From:   stevegillmor
Response to: Rendezvous

Judging by the lack of posted results, you may be right. But my sense of the experimentation around Hydra and iChat AV in WiFi conference settings is that the explosive adoption is taxing the network. It would be useful to know what is causing the outage more from an allocation perspective.
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  • Rendezvous
    2003-07-17 20:54:46  ziggy-at-panix [Reply | View]

    Actually Hydra and iChat weren't that heavily used at OSCon. Lots of people wanted to try them out in a conference setting, but I wouldn't call the use of either "explosive" or even "widespread".

    Sure, there was a huge Mac OS X presence, but many people didn't want to run iChat (even after being prodded), and a lot of people were frustrated with the networking situation.

    Plus, iChat was acting funny. On many occasions, I could see about 7 people logged in via Rendezvous, but the person sitting next to me could see dozens. I couldn't send messages to him, but he could send messages to me that I could respond to.
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