Breeze Article
Best Practices for Screen Sharing in Breeze Meeting
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Best Practices for Screen Sharing
- Strategy 1: Use Alternatives to Screen Sharing
- Strategy 2: Optimize Your Local Setup
- Strategy 3: Optimize Room Bandwidth Settings
- Strategy 4: Monitor Attendee Connection Status
- Advanced Topics: Screen Sharing, Voice Over IP, and Live Video
- Advanced Topics: Using Two Computers to Monitor a Web Seminar
Strategy 3: Optimize room bandwidth settings
Breeze has two room settings available for meeting attendees to optimize Breeze screen-sharing performance.
First, meeting hosts can control the overall room bandwidth setting. Using this setting in conjunction with the latency information displayed in the participant list allows you to push the highest-quality screen fidelity to your audience. To change overall room bandwidth, select Meeting > Optimize Room Bandwidth.
Figure 4. You can use the Optimize Room Bandwidth feature to balance screen-sharing quality with meeting attendee bandwidth requirements
In this menu are three settings available for the most common bandwidth scenarios: Modem, DSL, and LAN. If a meeting host chooses LAN over DSL or Modem, the fidelity of the screen image will be better, but with more bandwidth required and a higher chance of users on slower connections experiencing a higher degree of latency.
Therefore, it is important to know your audience’s connection speed. Generally, if you are sharing your screen with a purely internal audience who are all connected locally on a T3 LAN, you likely want to maximize your fidelity since bandwidth is not much of a concern. If you are sharing your screen with a highly diverse external audience who are attending the meeting on a variety of connections, it’s probably a good idea to lower the room bandwidth settings to DSL or Modem to ensure that users do not experience latency.
Figure 5. If meeting attendees are falling behind, they can use the My Connection Speed feature to reduce the amount of information being sent to their meeting instance.
Similarly, meeting attendees can set their personal bandwidth setting through the Meeting menu. This setting is applied to a particular attendee’s experience. If an attendee sets their bandwidth setting to DSL and the meeting room bandwidth is set to LAN, the information sent to the attendee’s computer is tailored to their specified connection speed. If you are running a meeting with an attendee who is experiencing latency issues, instruct them to change this setting.
